By IZURU HISHIYAMA/ Staff Writer
September 20, 2022 at 08:00 JST
Dismantled parts of a statue of Hitsujishin (sheep general) are on display Aug. 4 at the Otsu City Museum of History in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture. A written message found inside the statue revealed the name of the sculptor and other information. (Izuru Hishiyama)
OTSU, Shiga Prefecture--At least nine Buddhist statues long assumed to have been carved after a fire set by the warlord Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582) razed Enryakuji temple here to the ground in the 16th century turn out to be far older. [Read More]
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