The first time I went to Kiyomizudera, I heard that if you jumped from the stage and lived, you would have good luck. Naturally, they don’t allow such a thing anymore, but when they did, there was a surprisingly high survival rate, due to the fact that there were trees at the bottom. I was looking at the trees at the time, and for the life of me, I could not visualize how they would help.

There are three fountains at the temple. It was interesting, but out of the entire group of high school students, we all chose the one for wisdom.