After a good night's rest, the group set out early the next morning, driving together to Kiyomizu-dera.
Kiyomizu-dera, constructed in 778 AD, is an ancient Buddhist temple, the oldest in Kyoto, and a national treasure of Japan.
According to the "Zoku Gunsho Ruiju," which records the origins of Kiyomizu-dera, a monk named Kenjin, who was practicing in Nara at the time, dreamed of an elderly monk in white robes telling him to "go north in search of a clear spring."
Following the guidance from his dream, Kenjin traveled north from Nara to Kyoto, where he discovered a waterfall formed by a spring on Mount Otowa.
By the waterfall, Kenjin encountered an elderly monk, the incarnation of Guanyin, who handed him a piece of spirit wood and instructed him to carve it into a statue of Guanyin.
From then on, Monk Kenjin took residence by the waterfall, building a hut there to continue his practice.
