THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
August 11, 2020 at 19:05 JST
A Buddhist saint drawn on the column on the left side of the “shumidan” platform inside the Saimyoji temple’s Hondo main hall in Kora, Shiga Prefecture (Provided by Noriaki Ajima and Yukari Takama)
KORA, Shiga Prefecture--Researchers have discovered images of eight Buddhist saints drawn on two columns of a local temple’s Hondo main hall through infrared photography, which could date back more than 1,300 years. [Read More]
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