Вегетарианцы любят животных вдвое меньше меня. Ведь они любят только живых животных. А я и мёртвыми не брезгую.

- Сперва вы говорите, что если мне что-то не нравится, я должен валить из страны! А когда я именно так и поступил, вы присвоили мне статус иноагента, арестовываете мои активы на территории России, и подаёте на меня в суд! Где логика, господа? Где логика, я вас спрашиваю?! Вы разве не знаете, как говорят: "Если любишь, отпусти!"
- Хороша попытка, господин Чубайс, но нет.

DameBoudicca has added a photo to the pool:

The Buddhist temple Kyōō-ji (経王寺) in Arakawa-ku, close to the Nippori, central Tokyo. The temple was founded in 1655 by Kanmuri Shohei, a local farmer, and was for a long time a family temple. It seems to have survived relatively unscathed all through the Battle of Ueno in 1868 (though bullet holes can actually be seen in the entrance gate to the area), the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 and the fire bombs of the Second World War.

Daikoku-do (大黒堂) actually means the Hall of Daikoku, which in this case is the home of a statue of Daikoku (or more correctly Daikokuten 大黒天), supposedly made by Nichiren (the founder of the Nichiren sect of Japanses Buddhism). And Daikokuten is in Japanese tradition a deity of wealth and fortune - and a patron of among others farmers (which fits well considering the founder of the temple). But he is actually based on a Hindu god, and Shiva no less. Shiva as the destroyer of all things (though he was imported through Chinese Buddhist traditions, and he had changed quite a lot already on the way).

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