The Historian · Hana · Tokyo
Senso-ji
I've come here at dawn for years. The temple at 6 a.m. is a different place than the temple at noon. The history is more audible in the quiet.
Tokyo's oldest temple, founded 645 CE. The current buildings are 1950s reconstructions — the originals burned in March 1945. Every stone you see is postwar material holding a pre-war memory.
— Hana, The Historian
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