Between Ueno Park and Yanaka Cemetery, Jyomyo-In is a Buddhist temple notable for its ranks of jizo, statues of the guardian saint of children. There are so many that it's said there are eighty-four thousand of them, and while that seems implausible (I didn't count them), there are certainly a lot. Most of them are lined up in rows, ancient and weathered, lending to that part of the temple the hushed air of a cemetery, the only sound the leaves rustling in the wind.
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Jyomyo-In Temple in Yanaka
Home to 84,000 Buddhist saints
By Peter Sidell
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Odilia Sindy Okinawati
8 years ago
An artistic Buddhist temple with so many statues. It is carving statues or printed?
Mostly carved stone, some of them are made from bronze. It's a beautiful place!
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