Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/200 sec, f/2.5, ISO 6400 — map & image data — nearby photos
“Ragaraja”
Ushio Kannon Temple (牛尾観音), Kyoto Japan

I made another visit to the hard-to-reach Ushio Kannon Temple, which I wrote about a couple of months ago, but this time I went by car and took my nice camera. The beautiful, rich matte red of this dimly-lit statue caught my eye...

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — ¹/100 sec, f/2, ISO 3200 — map & image data — nearby photos
愛染明王

I don't know anything about Buddhism, but this statue is apparently of a Wisdom King named “Ragaraja”, a “dharmapala deity” that is “known to transform worldly lust into spiritual awakening”, according to Wikipedia.

Visually it's quite interesting, and was one of many in a small, dimly-lit hall.

To be continued...