...here's the one of Sensoji (as I was saying the other day, that it is a Buddhist temple doesn't really matter.) Here the dragon motif s more than evident: the gentleman is the dragon king Sagara (Sagara Ryu-o/沙羯羅竜王) made in 1903 by the sculptor Takamura Koun (高村光雲, 1852-1934)
(For a bigger version of this picture both in color and black and white, check my "Japan Arekore 2" set on Flickr).
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