three-story Seigantoji temple reopened in December after a multi-month refurb with a fresh coat of vermillion paint—the first since its 1972 reconstruction. It shed its scaffolding and floats ...

A "great bathing" event to clean one of the largest bronze statues of Kobo Daishi in Japan was held at Imayama Daishi temple in the ... and weighs 11 metric tons. Scaffolding was set up around ...