{"id":1323,"date":"2011-12-07T16:10:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T22:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2011-12-07T16:10:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T22:10:01","slug":"more-pictures-from-the-daishi-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/2011\/12\/07\/more-pictures-from-the-daishi-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"more pictures from the Daishi temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statue of the monk Jizo (maybe, I&#8217;m guessing because of his hat and staff) and the pagoda, at the Kawasaki Daishi temple.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/daishi-pagoda-and-statue1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/daishi-pagoda-and-statue1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"daishi pagoda and statue\" width=\"518\" height=\"387\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1324\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, this is very interesting:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kawasakidaishi.com\/english\/cathedrals.html\" title=\"link to explanation site\" target=\"_blank\">link to explanation site<\/a> The Five-story pagoda was completed in March 1984 in recognition of the 1,150th anniversary of the death of Kobo Daishi. It&#8217;s a simple and solemn octagon in compliance with the form of the ShingonSchool. An octagon is a building form which is like a circle, symbolizing broad-mindedness and wholeness. There is also an analogy with devotion to Buddhism through Shakamuni\u2019s teaching of the\u201cEight Right Ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/jizo-wet-sandle-statue.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/jizo-wet-sandle-statue.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"jizo wet sandle statue\" width=\"310\" height=\"414\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1325\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sembei-shop-exterior-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sembei-shop-exterior-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sembei shop exterior 2\" width=\"494\" height=\"371\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1326\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this is the other side of the sembei shop I posted about before.<br \/>\n<object width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ylQyLSuIghM?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ylQyLSuIghM?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statue of the monk Jizo (maybe, I&#8217;m guessing because of his hat and staff) and the pagoda, at the Kawasaki Daishi temple. Oh, this is very interesting: link to explanation site The Five-story pagoda was completed in March 1984 in recognition of the 1,150th anniversary of the death of Kobo Daishi. It&#8217;s a simple and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-8","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}