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The vast majority of Japanese consider themselves adherents of both Buddhism and Shinto. Here a priest of the Nichiren sect beats a drum at Myorenji, a temple famed for its 17th-century raked rock garden located in the Nishijin textile artisan district of Kyoto.
Author: Michael Yamashita
©Michael Yamashita
Photo size: 14.0 Mpixels (40.2 MB uncompressed) - 3047x4608 pixels (10.1x15.3 in / 25.8x39.0 cm at 300 ppi)
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