The Senso-ji Temple is dedicated to Asakusa Kannon, the Buddhist god of mercy and happiness. According to legend, two fishermen struck gold and found a statue of the god while fishing on the ...

Walk to the temple from Asakusa Station for an impressive view ... built in the mid-700s and home to one of Japan’s largest bronze Buddha statues, and Nigatsu-dō, sitting on the hillside ...

Sensoji Temple is at 2-3-1 Asakusa, Taito City, Tokyo 111-0032 ... The Rainbow Bridge is at 3-33-19 Kaigan, Minato City, Tokyo 108-0022. 3- Hachiko Memorial Statue Hachiko is a monument in Tokyo you ...

the trustee of the temple, who, with residents of Swamimalai, was making arrangements for transporting the statue on Wednesday (February 5, 2025). The animal with abnormal features was born in ...

TSUSHIMA, Nagasaki (Japan): A former chief priest of a temple in Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, from which a Buddha statue was stolen and taken to South Korea, said he was “relieved” about ...

An ancient marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2,000 years old was found dumped near a cluster of garbage bins in Greece, kicking off a police investigation into potential illegal ...

A 14th-century Buddhist statue that Korea’s Supreme Court ruled should be returned to the Japanese temple that held it before it was smuggled into Korea will be sent to Japan in May. The Gilt ...

A 32-year-old Greek national found the statue on Jan. 18 in a black bag near the trash bins. The statue, believed to be from the Hellenistic period, is currently being held by authorities for ...

A renowned sculptor unveiled a massive monument in Times Square on Wednesday to honor famed soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo on his 40th birthday — and his fans celebrated by chanting his ...

Close to 100 statues of Imperial Japanese Army troops, made more than 80 years ago, stand on the premises of an old temple here in Chita Peninsula. They were erected, in memory of soldiers killed ...

Police in Greece said Wednesday they were investigating how an ancient Greek statue came to be dumped in a black plastic bag near garbage cans in the northern city of Thessaloniki. The organized ...

But the kids were focused more intently on something at the edge of the stonemason’s yard outside the building that stared back at them: a large stone statue of a bestial creature in mid-scream ...