Idols

June 2006
Urasa, Japan

All around the countryside here you will find lots of small idols like this relating to the Buddhist period. Most of them will be in and around shrines, at the foot of a mountain, in a thicket. More often than not there will some offering in the form of change at the base of the deity :)
I suppose the setting is so serene and blessed you just automatically make a wish!