The Otoko Zaka and Onna Zaka, Fudo-o-Sama, Nigishi. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of the steep flight of steps leading up to the temple: 'Fudo-o-sama is described to us by Japanese as not a true god, but a deity invented by the priests. He is neither Sintoo not Buddhist, but his temples are generally — we believe always — placed by a str...
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View of the six stone images, placed beneath a thatched structure: '...the Roku-ji-zo, is a collection of six gods who are supposed to guard the roads that lead to the celestial and infernal regions, and they are supplicated to direct the way of the departed spi...
The Belfry, Nishi Monzeki, Yedo [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of the bell tower of the Monzeki Temple, destroyed in the fire of April 1872: 'the stonework is all that now remains of it.'