Two Fishermen and a Goddess – The Senso-ji Temple
June 6th 2017 It all starts with a story about two men in a boat…
It begins on the morning of March 18, 628 AD when the brothers Hinokuma Hamanari and Takenari caught a small golden statue of the Buddhist bodhisattva Kannon in their nets while fishing in the Sumida River. They tried to drop it back in the river, but it kept coming up so they decided to keep it. When they returned to the village, they showed
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