EU: Kyoto, Maruyama Park. Chion-in (17th c.) with Holy Lanterns (1913)
1913 Kyoto, Japan
Chion-in, whose present halls date to the seventeenth century, photographed in 1913 near Maruyama Park with its stone lanterns in view. As head temple of the Jodo sect, Chion-in was among the most important Buddhist sites in Kyoto's Higashiyama district.
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