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Tokyo - 東京

the Ōte-moat
(Chiyoda-ku 千代田区)

和気清麻呂

Wake no Kiyomaro

Bizen province 733-799
high-ranking Japanese official during the Nara period.
(Wikipedia)

Asayama Sato
1940

Description

Bronze statue.

Information Sign

(left: tablet on the backside of pedestal; right: tablet on a stone monument nearby the statue)
Transcription in html and translation wanted!

Annotation

Erected in 1940 to commemorate

Sculptor

We Gen Sato / Asayama Sato - 佐藤玄々 / 佐藤朝山先生 (1888-1963), Japanese sculptor (Wikipedia (Japanese) – Website).

Sources & Information

Blog about Wake no Kiyomaro

Locatie (N 35°41'22" - E 139°45'36") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: jp014; Photograph: 1 February 2008 / updated: 26 March 2013
Of each statue we made photos from various angles and also detail photos of the various texts.
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