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Kyoto's Largest Wooden Temple Holds A Truly Unsettling Giant Artifact Made Of Human Hair
Within the stunningly decorated wooden walls of an immense temple in Kyoto, you'll find an unusual artifact of human hair ...
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As sales of Japan temples and shrines surge, a crackdown on bad-faith buyers
SANBAGAWA, Gunma Prefecture--Benmou Suzuki’s dilapidated 420-year-old temple, located deep in the forest near a tiny Japanese mountain village, hardly looks like prized real estate. Yet the monk ...
Sole official Tibetan temple in Japan offers matchmaking luck, buzzworthy photos
Inside, just as in Jokhang ... Mongolians and others living in Japan visit the temple as a place of spiritual comfort, and ...
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Japanese mark the end of winter with bean-throwing ritual to ward off evil spirits
Japan’s annual ritual of “mame-maki ... Like rice, soybeans are considered a symbol of vitality and purity. Inside the Zojoji temple in Tokyo, a number of people including sumo wrestlers ...