Thursday, 3 February 2011

shrines and sea caves

All right - last post of the day! I was turning over the idea of the shrine as a sea cave and typed 'shrine' and 'sea cave' into google. The hits included these two images of a Shinto shrine in a cave in Japan. Extraordinarily, the images date from the 1890s and are hand-tinted. Take a look:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/4185672920/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/4185670494/

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