...there are six statues of the bodhisattva Jizo we mentioned yesterday. They belong to Zenkoji and they are six to symbolize that Jizo saves all sentient beings in the six realms of hell (jigoku/地獄), hungry ghosts (gaki/餓鬼), animals (chikusho/畜生), demigods (asura/阿修羅), humans (ningen/人間) and gods (ten/天).
(For a bigger version of this picture both in color and black and white, check my "Japan Arekore" set on Flickr).
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