Here is another wish. This one is for the Sendai professional baseball team, the Rakuten Eagles, to come in first this year. The plea was not very effective. The team came in fourth out of the six teams in their division.
This is the sign over the door to a men's room. It is the outline of a man wearing a kimono covered by hakuma, a pants like arrangement that covers the kimono and is now worn only on formal occasions.
This is the women's room. It is a woman wearing a kimono.
We had now been all the way around the grounds and had seen at least the outside of all the buildings. We decided it was time to leave and took a side exit, just to see where it went.
As we walked down a narrow backstreet, we sat the roof of a pagoda. A quick look at a map told us that this was Ryuhoji, the dragon treasure temple. Since we had plenty of time, we decided to find the entrance and explore some more.
A short walk brought us to the main gate. There were no guardian kings but maybe because it is next door to Hachiman Jingu, a shrine dedicated to the God of War, they felt that no more protection was needed.
The first building inside the grounds was this very nice two story pagoda. It looked fairly new, or at least in excellent and recent repair.
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