Great Buddha. Kamakura, Japan. December 2014.
"...A tourist-show, a legend told,
A rusting bulk of bronze and gold,
So much, and scarce so much, ye hold
The meaning of Kamakura?
But when the morning prayer is prayed,
Think, ere ye pass to strife and trade,
Is God in human image made
No nearer than Kamakura?"
- The Five Nations/Buddha at Kamakura by Rudyard Kipling