Ryosen-Kannon
The Ryōsen-Kannon ( Japanese 霊 山 観 音 ) is a free-standing Kannon sculpture within a Buddhist temple of the same name in the Higashiyama area of Kyoto ; Japan.
Overview
The Kannon was donated in 1955 by the founder of the bus company Teisan Group , Ishikawa Hirosuke ( 石川 博 資 ; † 1965), as a place of worship for world peace. The statue was made by the sculptor Yamazaki Chōun . The far visible Kannon stands on the main building of the temple, inside of which an eleven-headed Kannon is venerated.
You enter the temple in the west through the temple gate ( 山門 Sammon ; 1), then you have the mirror pond ( 鏡 の 池 Kagami no ike ; 2) in front of you in the wide courtyard . Behind it rises the temple hall ( 本 堂 Hondō ; 3) on the roof of which there is the large Kannon (4). All fallen soldiers in the world are commemorated in a separate building, the Memorial Hall (5) behind the hall. There is also the small Goma Hall ( 護 摩 堂 ; 6) for the Goma ceremony.
In front of the main hall, on the left side, a roofed-over meter-high "wish ball" ( 願 い 玉 Negai-dama ) is set up, which you can touch and hope that your wishes will be fulfilled. To the right of the entrance is a petition for miscarriages or children lost through abortion, which in Japan is addressed to the holy Jizō . In the south wing there are galleries for storing urns.
Data on the statue
- Total height: 24 m
- Face: 6 m
- Eyebrows: 1.1 m
- Eyes: 1 m
- Nose: 1.6 m
- Mouth: 90 cm
- Executed in reinforced concrete
- Total weight: around 500 tons
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Coordinates: 34 ° 59 ′ 59.8 ″ N , 135 ° 46 ′ 54.7 ″ E