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More model informationNight Photogrammetry. The Dragon King is one of the statues that protect Senso-ji temple in Asakusa, Tokyo. It was sculpted by Takamura Kōun, 1906. also known as Asakusa Kannon Temple, is a Buddhist temple—the oldest temple in Tokyo. Legend says that in the year 628, the brothers Hinokuma Hamanari and Hinokuma Takenari, two fisherman, found a statue dedicated to the bodhisattva Kannon, also known as Guan Yin or the Goddess of Mercy, out of the Sumida River. Even though they put the statue back into the river, it always returned to them. Their master, Hajino Nakamoto, recognizing the sanctity of the statue, enshrined it in his house, and then in 645 the holy man Shokai built the first temple on this location.
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