Touch Moss

[rynling]

西芳寺｜Saihoji Temple
https://saihoji-kokedera.com/en/

I am filled with a burning desire to touch this moss.

LOOK AT IT: https://intosaihoji.com/en/saihoji/goki/

Comments

[lassarina]

wow i have a desire to just pet that. For quite a while.

[rynling]

I've done more research into Saihoji during the past two days. Apparently, people not being able to resist the desire to pet the moss was such a problem that they closed the temple to the public for more than a decade. They just opened it again in 2023, but you have to go through a very long (and very Japanese*) vetting process to be admitted.

It must be difficult for that moss to be so green and so soft and so fluffy.


* By "very Japanese," I mean that postcards and fax machines are involved.

[lassarina]

Oh no, poor moss! I'm glad it has recovered enough to open to the public again.