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Watercolour and crayon
©2015 Charlene Brown
This Buddhist temple is most famous for its 9 m.
tall gilded statue of Kannon, the goddess of Mercy – one of the largest wooden
sculptures in Japan. The temple also
includes an underground cave, the Benzaiten Grotto, and a garden with hundreds
of poignant little stone Jizo statues – some laughing, but all tragic – placed
there by grieving parents.
There is also a spectacular cliff-top outlook to the
sea, with this uni-lingual but easily understood warning about aggressive kites
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