Gion in Kyoto

Shirakawa Canal, Gion, Kyoto, showing rear of ochaya (teahouses)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shirakara_Canal,_Gion,_Kyoto.jpg)

I'm looking at this image and I remember a place that I liked. It was New Hope in Pennsylvania, on the border of Delaware. The rear of the houses was looking the same on the narrow canal. It was a town of the artists, and of course of tourists.

Here is about Gion in Kyoto. It was the way to reach Yasaka Shrine, since ancient times, and it became the district of geisha. Only we should know that here, in the Gion of Kyoto, the gheisa was rather a geiko: a child of the arts. It was also the district of kabuki theaters. It's the heart of Kyoto.

Yoko walks us through Gion, without haste, during the day, coming again there by night, to make us get the soul of the place. Naoki Tohdo scored the video. It's a beautiful music.

(video by HANAFUBUKI)

(The Thousand faces of HANAFUBUKI)