Easy Japanese news in translation: Huge statue cleaned at temple in Miyazaki Pref.
Note: Kobo Daishi is the posthumous name of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835).
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Life-size wooden Hideyoshi statue discovered, likely biggest in Japan
OSAKA--A life-size wooden statue of the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi has been discovered at Omiyajinja shrine here, providing a clue to how people worshipped him during his successor's era.
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Giant statue of ancient Buddhist monk in southwest Japan cleansed ahead of spring festival
NOBEOKA, Miyazaki -- One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi temple in this southwestern Japan city was purified ...