Nara continued

Awesome Buddhist and Shinto shrines, the Todaiji Buddhist temple the biggest wooden building in the world, with the benign and rather wonderful Buddha the biggest in Japan. His hands signal ‘Don’t worry, your wishes will be granted’. FYI he’s sitting in a vast bronze lotus leaf.

Then the Kasuga Shinto temple of a thousand stone lanterns, the main building currently undergoing renovation, but nevertheless spectacular. Oh, and yet more deer amongst the lanterns 🦌 🦌 🦌