Oushuu33Kannon Temples 1-3 Part 10

This is quite representative of the area we were walking through - houses with gardens and green houses around them.
The next house is quite typical of the area. It is hard to see but all around the house are things that are used in farming - small tools, half full bags of chemicals, seedlings and plants in pots, etc. The building was obvious constructed in section. Probably the small center section with the blue rood was the original building. Then when the family expanded the two-story extension was added. At some point the building in the back was constructed to serve as the equivalent of a barn.
My legs were getting really sore when we finally reached Shinguji. It turned out to be quite large and to have a large residence attached to the main hall, which is shown in the next picture.
Off to the left there was a separate small shrine but I do not know who or what is was dedicated to. In any case I thought it was quite nice and was tempted to draw a picture, but we had to find someone to stamp our books and after that we still had a long, long walk back to the nearest train station.
In the next picture, the building on the left is a corner of the main hall, the building in the middle, in addition to various rooms, contains a long hall at the front, connecting the main hall to the residency on the left. We tried the entrance in the middle but no one answered. Then we noticed a doorbell on the the residency door, so we tried there. After a long wait, a woman came out. We said that we wanted our books stamped and she disappeared for a while, returning with stamped pages for us to insert in our books. We paid our 300 yen and left, noting that the woman was not particularly pleasant - we probably made here miss some of a TV program or something.
In regard to the woman, I should add that most of the temples are maintained by priests who marry and have families. The Japanese idea being that to advise the flock the priest needs to have first hand experience of family life. There are monasteries when the sexes are separated and those living there are expected to be, not only celibate, but to have as little contact with the opposite sex as possible.