Monday, September 17, 2007

The large motherly statue

So, this weekend (actually just Saturday) was pretty crazy, it was Straton and Annas last night here so we went out and stuff and I even got to DJ at Grassroots which was super fun and then we went to karaoke until 7:30am (!!!!) which was pretty neat and I got back to Kurume at about 10am and have been pretty much sleeping/watching stuff on youtube in my bed all weekend. so i thought today i better get out and do something, so I decided to go venture out to visit "Narita-san" and "Jibo Kannonzou".
Its big. "Jibo Kannonzou (the large motherly statue) was built in 1983. It is 62 metres high, the largest Kannonzou in Kyushu". Shit that means there is a bigger one somewhere else in Japan!!

This is a crap picture cos it cuts off the head but I really wanted to show the people so you could get some perspective of how big it is (you can click on the photo to see it bigger dick)

going in........

I was literally the only person in the statue the whole time, which was kinda fun and also kinda weird and creepy at the same time.....

At the top the view was pretty good although you could only look out of these little tiny 20x20cm windows.

Birds flew past.

At the bottom under the statue you could go here (again I was the only person there).

There was a life size diorama of people worshipping Buddha...

....and of animals worshipping Buddha.

and cool tunnels...

and a scary skull lined entrance to some room that I didnt go into cos I am a scardey cat...

outside I did some god poses by myself (yeah, I'm awesome!)

oh and this Dinosaur made of tyres....

.....and Godzilla made of tyres is fucking awesome!

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