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A statue at the Buddhist Temple up Mt. Hachiman. I particularly love the dog :3



Mt. Hachiman 「八面山」 : February 9, 2013
Nakatsu-shi, Oita-ken, Kyushu, Japan
  中津市   大分県   九州  日本


We visited Mt. Hachiman, which is south of where we live. It's a notable mountain, because it looks the same from most angles (or so I have been told) and is one of the taller peaks in our area of Kyushu. Students regularly take trips to hike it, and the view from further up is rather astounding. Far up the mountain was a huge temple complex of literally hundreds of statues of Buddha and Bodhisattva. Everywhere you looked, there were small stone statues, and some rather large ones as well. The most notable one is, of course, Hachiman, who is a Bodhisattva himself, in addition to being a Shinto kami (it all goes back to that fun period in Japanese history when Buddhism and Shinto were pretty much worshiped together, and a lot of intermingling went on, until Shinbutsu Bunri (separation of Buddha and Kami) was enacted in the Meji period).
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2592x3872px 6.51 MB
Make
PENTAX
Model
PENTAX K2000
Shutter Speed
1/90 second
Aperture
F/4.0
Focal Length
70 mm
ISO Speed
400
Date Taken
Jan 1, 2008 12:00:05 AM +09:00
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