Mission Photograph Album - Japan - O.P. #01 Page 0127

Mission Photograph Album - Japan - O.P. #01 Page 0127

1900-1930

Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church

Missions

Japan

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The General Commission on Archives and History of the United Methodist Church

JanOP1-127:1 Two Shinto priests carrying their shrine about.

64495 San-ju Sangendo. The Temple of 33,333 images of Kwannon, the
Goddess of Mercy, Kyoto. No two of these images have the same arrangement
of hands and articles held in them. Each image is five feet high and
represents the eleven faced thousand handed Kwannon. The temple dates from
1266 A.D. and is 57 ft. by 389 ft. long.

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