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Friday, April 23, 2004

Ojoyoshu - or - Another Day in Paradise: "While on a car trip to examine these places we saw a big red devil next to the street, but didn't stopped. Much later I found out that this place fits perfectly into my collection and we went there again for some closer investigation.

The Izu Gokurakuen, loosely translated as 'Heaven Park' is a family owned collection of selfmade dioramas based on the book Ojoyoshu (The Essentials of Salvation) written by a buddhist monk named Genshin (942-1017). It describes in gruesome detail how sinners are ranked and placed into different hells in descending order according to their sins, while only pure souls are able to reach 'Pure Land'.

Please research the full story about Ojoyoshu yourself or stay here and, uhm, enjoy the pictures."
-- posted by Jason at 11:26 PM