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The Thirty-Three Halls of the Buddha Shrine, Kyoto, c.1910s - Postcard

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Sanjūsangen-dō by Fernando Crego

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Für rund 1.600 junge #Kyudo-Schützen wurde am Wochenende in #Kyoto ein Traum wahr. Sie durften am #Tooshiya-Turnier am Tempel #Sanjusangendo teilnehmen. In bunter Kleidung zeigten die jungen Sportler ihre Schießkunst. #Japan

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Enrolled in the army in 1942, Kōchō fought in various places in China during WWII.
Demobilized in 1945, he returned to a quiet life restoring the statues of Sanjūsangen-dō.

In 1951 he took the tonsure as a Tendai monk and rose to become Director of the Kokuhō Shūrijo.

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Prior to becoming abbot, Kōchō had been a professor at Tōkyō University of the Arts and later worked at the Nihon Bijutsuin Kokuhō Shūrijo, restoring priceless Buddhist statues.

He aided with the restoration of statues at Sanjūsangen-dō (三十三間堂).

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