Ofuna

"Mercy stood in the cloud

with eye that wept

essential love."

Robert Pollock

Persistently
Incrementally
You poisoned me
With your
Strychnine lies
Cleverly disguised
In words of
Love

Song of the day: Babe by Styx

Photo: Ofuna Kannon, Kamakura, Japan


Ōfuna Kannon (From Wikipedia)

The Ōfuna Kannon or Muga sozan Ōfuna Kannonji is a Buddhist temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan. The outstanding feature of the temple is a 25 meter tall 1,900 ton reinforced concrete statue of Kan'non which is dedicated to the bodhisattva Kan'non or Kuan Yin.

Construction of the Temple began in 1929 by the Soto(Zen) Buddhist sect. The outline of the statue was complete by 1934 but work was suspended at the outbreak of the Pacific War. The Ofuna Kannon Society continued construction work in 1954 and the Temple was finally completed in 1960.

The Kannon incorporates stones from ground zero of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to commemorate those who died in the explosions of the atomic bombs. A fire originating from the atomic fires of Hiroshima burns in a mushroom-formed statue.