At the main gateway to Sensō-ji, Tokyo's oldest Buddhist temple, two unlikely guardians stand watch. Both are fearsome, with the kind of fiery hair often used in manga and anime, alongside bulging, angry eyes. One, Raijin, holds a hammer and is surrounded by taiko drums. The other, Fūjin, bears a snake-like bag across his shoulders. Together, they tell a story of extraordinary parallels and connections stretching across centuries and many thousands of miles, giving life to the cosmos out of which so much Japanese art and culture was born.
Wonderful piece! Can't wait for the podcast.
Thank you - very kind!
Thanks for writing! Visited Edinburgh this spring w my family, and we were mesmerized!
Thanks for reading! Yes, it's a lovely city, isn't it - the 'Athens of the North'...!
We decoded crop circles.
https://open.substack.com/pub/originalmuman/p/crop-circles?r=699zlt&utm_medium=ios