When visiting a Japanese shrine or a temple, one can be easily overwhelmed by the lavishness of decorations, and insane attention to architectural details. Admiring Japanese traditional architecture could be compared to admiring Japanese calligraphy. First one admires the overal composition and the white space, then the harmony between the characters, then balance of strokes, and finally fine details of each line, dot and so on. Below you can see Japanese calligraphy in standard script carved in wood. It reads: 成田山 (Narita san), which is the name of the Busshist temple complex in Narita city near Tokyo. It was a gift from Akita prefecture, presented to the Narita temple back in Taisho Era (大正), year 9, i.e. 1921.
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