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Goshuin at Kiyomizu-dera
The friend guiding us around clued me in to these things: you buy a book of blank, accordion-folded...
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Roof tiles at Shofukuji
Decorative faces on the ridge-tiles, a little battered by time.
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Uploaded on Sep 6, 2011
Wall at Shofukuji
I don't know for sure, but it looks to me like they took bits of tile and decorative stone gathered...
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Shofukuji
The palm trees and run-down state of this temple lent it a very peculiar air, especially since...
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Gate at Shofukuji
The crud in the air was determined to gunk up my camera lens, but the gate at Shofukuji was wonderful.
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Turtle at Fukusaiji
Kannon's turtle-mount (which is also the temple building) is fabulous.
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Kannon at Fukusaiji
Kannon. Eighteen meters tall. With little children pleading at her feet. You can see her...
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Fukisaiji
This is a . . . non-traditional bit of architecture. By which I mean it's an eighteen-meter-tall statue of Kannon riding a giant turtle.
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Sculpture at Fukusaiji
Monument to the Twenty-Six Martyrs
Commemorating twenty-six Christians killed in Nagasaki in 1597, when the Japanese government cracked...
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Dragon sculpture at Dejima
Looks awesome, doesn't it? It's made of sugar. There was a whole display of incredible sugar sculptures in the museum at Dejima.
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Model of Dejima
There are a number of models of the settlement scattered around the place; this one is a good twenty feet long.
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Memorial at Dejima
I have misplaced the name of the Dutch guy this commemorates, but you don't need to know who he was to think that bas-relief bust looks weird.
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Re-enactor at Dejima
The rebuilt settlement at Dejima (which was for centuries the only port in Japan open to Westerners,...
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One-Legged Torii
Half this torii was blown away in the explosion, but the other half stands to this day.
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Camphor tree and rope at Sanno Shrine
The two camphor trees bracketing the entrance to Sanno Jinja were badly damaged in the atomic blast,...
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Shishi at Sanno Jinja
Another guardian lion. This one wins the prize of "smuggest-looking lion I saw all trip."
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A thousand cranes at the Atomic Museum
This streamer of cranes spirals down the circular ramp into the Atomic Museum's main exhibition. In...
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