The statue was always being washed

Statue was being washed
Shot at Kogan-Ji, a Buddhist temple in Sugamo, Tokyo
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The precinct was crowded. And a queue was there. A stone statue stood in the front of the queue. The statue in the photo was that. It was Ksitigarbha. It was just being washed by a prayer.

When a worshiper finished washing, another worshiper came to wash. So it kept being washed. I worried that it became a just block of stone by being washed in the near future. It was believed that the statue has a power to cure the disease. So many elderly people come to pray and wash it.

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Jan 2008 STILL LIFE TOKYO

PHOTO DATA

No

1321

Shooting Date

Oct 2007

Posted On

January 15, 2008

Modified On

July 1, 2024

Place

Sugamo, Tokyo

Genre

Street Photography

Camera

CANON EOS 1V

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