Every day, hundreds of people visit Ryoanji Temple to see its Zen rock garden – which is probably the most famous of its kind in Japan. Located in Kyoto's northern outskirts, the temple was ...

Former Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa, right, explains his “fusuma-e” sliding door paintings he donated this past spring to Ryoanji in Kyoto’s Ukyo Ward. Stones from the temple’s famed ...