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Because some more snow images will hopefully soon invade my gallery, here a last image of spring, this is again Japan and the temple beyond the pond is the Sanjûsangendô budhist temple in Kyoto, first built in 1132.

It consists mainly of this very long hall where 1001 wooden statues of the budhist deities can be seen, the inside atmosphere is quite dark and it's forbidden to take pictures probably because of the sacred character of these statues but I believe as well to protect them from the light as I saw the people there took great care in avoiding any light to come in from the exterior.

So I did not take any picture inside to respect this great artwork, I must tell these statues are very impressive when you just try to imagine how much time it took to create them. But outside I found this PoV having the temple main building appear as a background of this harmonious small pond.

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Additional Photos by Jean Yves aka PixelTerror (PixelTerror) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 8928 W: 2177 N: 20988] (86853)
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