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Zojoji Temple
Tokyo, Japan - serlingrod - Saturday, January 5th, 2008 : goo
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Zojoji Temple is a Buddhist temple in Minato-ku ward, right in the heart of Tokyo. It served as the Buddhist temple of the Tokugawa family during the Edo period (Tokugawa Ieyasu was the first shogun, or general, of the Tokugawa shogunate, or dictatorship, which ruled Edo before it became Tokyo after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, when insular Japan opened up to the Western world). The cute little statues are known as Jizo statues, each representing a miscarried or aborted children. Young couples come and may homage to the mizuko (soul) of their unborn children.
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