33. This is a child's gravesite
On Koyasan there are over 200,000 graves. When a person goes to heaven, they go unclothed and wait on the other side of a river waiting to be taken to heaven. Especially when the person is a child, the family will often dress the stone to protect them from the cold.
posted by John Ward @ 4:28 PM
John Ward is an accomplished photographer living in Burlington Ontario. He and Eleanor travel often and the various bolgs you are viewing represent some of his best photographs. John's previous experience has been in commercial, portrait and wedding photography as well as black and white developing and printing. In the 1970's John also contributed "Village People" to the Bloor West Villager, a monthly newspaper in Toronto. John is a current member of the Latow Photographers' Guild.
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