Ohara is a village in the countryside about an hour north of the Kyoto train station but still technically within the city limits. It is a farming village that is famous both for the temples in the area and for the lovely mountains surrounding it - especially in autumn when the leaves turn.
There is a t.v. show David and I watch called "Venetia in Kyoto" which is about a woman from England who lives in Ohara. We have watched this show for 5 years and almost feel like we know her and the people of Ohara.
On Saturday we decided to walk all over Ohara. We wandered up a trail toward a temple that was built in 600. It burned down in 2000 and was rebuilt in 2004. On our way up the trail we saw a sign that said something about beeswax. I remembered a show on Venetia about honey so we decided to investigate. We discovered a family that does silk screening on long strips of fabric using vegetable dyes (tumeric, rose madder, persimmon etc).
A young man showed us the entire process including where they rinse the fabric in a stream. 
Sure enough we had seen him on t.v the year before when he and his family had been featured on Venetia's show! What a fun accidental discovery.
We never did find out why the sign said "beeswax".
