By IZURU HISHIYAMA/ Staff Writer
September 20, 2022 at 08:00 JST
A statue of Umashin (horse general) on display at the Otsu City Museum of History in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, on Aug. 4 after it was repaired (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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