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Asakusa Shrine

Asakusa Shrine

Also known as Asakusa-jinja

Year

1649

Type

building

Asakusa Shrine sits just east of the great Senso-ji temple and honors the two fishermen brothers who, by tradition, netted the golden Kannon image that founded the temple in the year 628, together with the local elder who first enshrined…

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