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Ikegami Honmonji – Prayer For Peace – 1
Once a year the monks at the grand Ikegami Honmonji in Tokyo’s Ota Ward hold a prayer for world peace at a buddhist ceremony at the temple’s pagoda. It is part of the yearly spring festival and the...
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Ikegami Honmonji – Prayer For Peace – 2
More photos from the ceremony at Ikegami Honmonji last weekend. The ceremony is a prayer for world peace, and the monks hold a beautiful ceremony, moving in procession around the pagoda and chanting...
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Ikegami Honmonji – Pray For Peace – 3
The last photos of last week’s spring festival and peace prayer at Ikegami’s Honmonji here in Tokyo. The monks file past the firefighters as the rain starts falling. From a purely selfish perspective I...
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Ikegami Honmonji Temple
The Ikegami Honmomji temple in Tokyo’s Ota Ward is one of the biggest in Tokyo. It was founded in 1282 but the buildings have been rebuilt several times since that, especially after the big bombing...
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Gokokuji Temple – Tokyo
Few temples in the Japanese capital manage what the grand Gokokuji in Bunkyo ward manages – it gives its name to a subway station: The Gokokuji Station on the Yurakucho line. Exiting from the station...
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More Gokokuji Temple – Bunkyo Ward
Some more photos of the nearly 400 years old Gokokuji temple in Tokyo’s culture rich Bunkyo ward. I took these a few weeks ago and the trees have yet to shoot any leaves but it was a brilliant day and...
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Gokokuji Taishido – Bunkyo Ward Temple
My favorite building on the massive Gokokuji temple compound in Tokyo’s Bunkyo Ward is without a doubt the relatively tiny Taishido (大師堂). The patina and the robustness of the old wooden building is...
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Graves of Gokokuji Temple
The huge Gokokuji Temple in Tokyo’s Bunkyo Ward is interesting not least for its graves of many historically significant persons in Japanese recent history. Not least among them is the statesman and...
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