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Words-and-Pictures:
Statuary
(as seen on October 1st, 2001,
on the Old Tokaido stage of the Aki
Meguri)
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This
statuary yard is located between Chiryu and Narumi in Aichi Prefecture, which are Stations #39
and 40 respectively (from Tokyo) on the
Old Tokaido Highway. You can read about my visit in my Logbook. You may also choose to start reading about
my Tokaido
journey at the beginning, or start at the top of my Aki
Meguri pages. |
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So I'm walking down the street and up ahead I see these
two creepy people standing by a bridge in the dusk. And when I get
closer, I discover they're part of a crowd...
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The first
"people" I saw... |
| A couple of crowd scenes... |
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| And some close ups. This is not
me with my shirt off; it's Hotei, one of the Seven Lucky Gods,
standing next to Prince Somebody-or-other |
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I think this is
Jurojin,
another of the Seven Lucky Gods |
| This is undoubtedly My Lady
Kannon-sama. One freaky thing about this display is that
the maker has made the gods look very human. |
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And here's Kobo Daishi, my other
patron for this trip. |
| See? I told you this was weird.
Weirder still to come across them all alone on a busy highway at
near-dark. |
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