By: V.V. Year 5B
NAME: Senso-Ji temple
CITY: Tokyo
COUNTRY: Japan
CAPITAL CITY: Tokyo
CONTINENT: Asia
LANGUAGE SPOKEN: Japanese
INFORMATION ABOUT THE MONUMENT:
- Sensō-ji is famously known as Tokyo's oldest temple.
- According to legend, two brothers were fishing in the Sumidagawa river and caught not a fish, but a Kannon statue, the goddess of mercy. When they put it back in the water the statue came back.
- This was 628, by 645 the temple dedicated to the Kannon was completed.
