This weeks theme in The Photo Hunt is Skinny or Usui (うすい) in Japanese as a loose translation. Usui actually translates to thin and this was as close as i could get.

Edit: It turns out the Japanese word for Skinny is Yaseta (やせた) thanks Paul

On a trip to Osaka last year i was lucky enough to stop by Kyoto on the way home where i visited several historical sights.

What was meant to be a day full of sights before catching the late train home turned sour due to bad weather. The first site to be seen was the “Tenryu-ji Temple” which is a world cultural heritage site and is the head temple of the Tehryu-ji branch of Rinzai Zen Buddhism. Now facts like that don’t mean much to me but to simplify it, it was built in 1339 and heaps of Samurai movies get shot in and around this area.

On the suggested walking tour through the temple we ended up on a long track headed towards the hills where i came across some Skinny bamboo. I think there’s a special name for this bamboo and it often features in flower arrangements as gifts and other special occasion ornaments.

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