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Carved into a cliff across the river from the temple ... period, Japanese Buddhist sculptures in stone were often reliefs hewn like this into the face of the rock, but from the Kamakura period ...

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Along with mustering its military might, the Kamakura shogunate entreated the gods, ordering the nation’s Buddhist ... in Japan as an unconquerable land of the gods. Japanese shrines and temples ...

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On the orders of Emperor Shomu, who wished for the happiness of everyone, the temple was built through the cooperation of 2.6 million people, around half of Japan's population ... through the Edo, ...

The old temple of the Tendai sect of Buddhism dates from the Nara Period ... as Otagi Nenbutsuji was flooded with people from across Japan eager to devote their works. The lesser-known tourist ...

FUKUYAMA, Hiroshima Prefecture--The hollowed out head of an ancient Buddhist statue kept at the Myooin temple here revealed sheet after sheet of “washi” traditional paper adorned with images ...