Workers place a mask on Buddhist goddess Kannon at Houkokuji Aizu Betsuin temple in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. [Courtesy] Workers scaled a giant statue of a Buddhist goddess in ...

There are more than 20,000 large and small Buddhist and Christian stone markers and unmarked graves of war dead, as well as a giant statue of Kannon, the goddess of mercy in Japanese Buddhism ...

And lining its lengthy walls is a rare full set of 1,000 wooden statues of Kannon, the Buddhist goddess of mercy. The human-sized statues were carved from Japanese cypress in the 12th and 13th ...