{"id":2758,"date":"2016-12-06T11:07:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T02:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2016-12-06\/2758"},"modified":"2016-12-06T11:07:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T02:07:55","slug":"a-deeply-red-wisdom-king-at-the-ushio-kannon-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2016-12-06\/2758","title":{"rendered":"A Deeply-Red &#8220;Wisdom King&#8221; at the Ushio Kannon Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class='ic' itemscope itemtype='http:\/\/schema.org\/Photograph'><a name=\"i100031\" href='\/i\/JF4_100031.jpg' itemprop='image'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF4_100031_sm.jpg\" width=\"383\" height=\"575\"\nalt=\"&amp;#8220; Ragaraja &amp;#8221; Ushio Kannon Temple (\u725b\u5c3e\u89b3\u97f3), Kyoto Japan -- Ushio Kannon Temple (\u725b\u5c3e\u89b3\u97f3) -- Copyright 2016 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http:\/\/regex.info\/ when used online)\"\nid=\"i100031\"\ntitle=\"&amp;#8220; Ragaraja &amp;#8221; Ushio Kannon Temple (\u725b\u5c3e\u89b3\u97f3), Kyoto Japan -- Ushio Kannon Temple (\u725b\u5c3e\u89b3\u97f3) -- Copyright 2016 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http:\/\/regex.info\/ when used online)\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D4 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>200 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 6400 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF4_100031.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF4_100031.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'><span class='QO'>&#8220;<\/span>Ragaraja<span class='QC'>&#8221;<\/span><\/span>\n<br\/>Ushio Kannon Temple (\u725b\u5c3e\u89b3\u97f3), Kyoto Japan\n<meta itemprop='url' content='http:\/\/regex.info\/i\/JF4_100031.jpg'\/>\n<meta itemprop='creator' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='copyrightHolder' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='dateCreated' content='2016-12-04'\/>\n<meta itemprop='about' content=\"&amp;#8220; Ragaraja &amp;#8221; Ushio Kannon Temple (\u725b\u5c3e\u89b3\u97f3), Kyoto Japan -- Ushio Kannon Temple (\u725b\u5c3e\u89b3\u97f3) -- Copyright 2016 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http:\/\/regex.info\/ when used online)\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p>I made another visit to the hard-to-reach Ushio Kannon Temple, which <a href='\/blog\/2016-10-17\/2741'><span\nclass='nobr'>I wrote<\/span> about <span class='nobr'>a couple<\/span> of months ago<\/a>, but this time <span class='nobr'>I\nwent<\/span> by car and took my nice camera. The beautiful, rich matte red of this dimly-lit statue caught my eye...<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic tight' itemscope itemtype='http:\/\/schema.org\/Photograph'><a name=\"i100029\" href='\/i\/JF4_100029.jpg' itemprop='image'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF4_100029_sm.jpg\" width=\"397\" height=\"575\"\nalt=\"\u611b\u67d3\u660e\u738b -- Ushio Kannon Temple (\u725b\u5c3e\u89b3\u97f3) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2016 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http:\/\/regex.info\/ when used online)\"\nid=\"i100029\"\ntitle=\"\u611b\u67d3\u660e\u738b -- Ushio Kannon Temple (\u725b\u5c3e\u89b3\u97f3) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2016 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http:\/\/regex.info\/ when used online)\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f\/1.4 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>100 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2, ISO 3200 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF4_100029.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF4_100029.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/>\u611b\u67d3\u660e\u738b\n<meta itemprop='url' content='http:\/\/regex.info\/i\/JF4_100029.jpg'\/>\n<meta itemprop='creator' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='copyrightHolder' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='dateCreated' content='2016-12-04'\/>\n<meta itemprop='about' content=\"\u611b\u67d3\u660e\u738b -- Ushio Kannon Temple (\u725b\u5c3e\u89b3\u97f3) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2016 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http:\/\/regex.info\/ when used online)\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p>I don't know anything about Buddhism, but this statue is apparently of <a href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wisdom_King'><span class='nobr'>a\nWisdom<\/span> King<\/a> named <a href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/R%C4%81gar%C4%81ja'><span class='QO'>&#8220;<\/span>Ragaraja<span class='QC'>&#8221;<\/span><\/a>, a <span\nclass='QO'>&#8220;<\/span>dharmapala deity<span class='QC'>&#8221;<\/span> that is <span class='QO'>&#8220;<\/span>known to transform\nworldly lust into spiritual awakening<span class='QC'>&#8221;<\/span>, according to Wikipedia.<\/p>\n\n<p>Visually it's quite interesting, and was one of many in <span class='nobr'>a small,<\/span> dimly-lit hall.<\/p>\n\n<p><i>To be continued...<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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...<\/p> <p>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.<\/p> <p>Visually it's quite interesting, and was one of many in a small, dimly-lit hall.<\/p> <p>To be continued...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}