Published on August 7, 2019.
While searching for the English spelling of Chong Ok-san, mentioned in Otaka Miki’s work, the author discovered an article that reminded him of the destruction of Buddhist statues he had witnessed at Daikakuji’s Osawa Pond.
The article recalls how, during a period when he repeatedly visited and photographed Arashiyama, Tenryuji, and Daikakuji, he found about ten Jizo and Buddhist statues cut away from their pedestals and left abandoned on Nakanoshima in Osawa Pond, and reported the scene to Daikakuji.
Comparing that sight with reports of Buddhist statues destroyed at temples in Fukushima, the author explains why he became convinced that his initial intuition had been correct.

August 7, 2019.
Who on earth, from where, would do such outrageous and lawless things?
While thinking that it must have been people from that country, I informed Daikakuji, and after discovering the article at the beginning, I found that my thought, “It must have been the work of people from that country,” had hit the mark.
The URL written at the end is one I discovered while searching for the English spelling of Chong Ok-san, who appeared in Otaka Miki’s laborious work.
As a person who does not live in Kyoto, I have often said that, in terms of the number of times I have visited Kyoto, I must be number one in the world.
For example, two years ago, I visited Arashiyama one hundred times in a single year.
This happened when I was continuing to photograph the garden of Tenryuji and Osawa Pond at Daikakuji through spring, summer, autumn, and winter.
There is a small torii on Nakanoshima in Osawa Pond, and beneath it, cruelly, about ten Jizo and Buddhist statues had been cut away from their pedestals and left abandoned.
Who on earth, from where, would do such outrageous and lawless things?
While thinking that it must have been people from that country, I informed Daikakuji, but they had not noticed it either.
After discovering the article at the beginning, I became convinced that my thought, “It must have been the work of people from that country,” had hit the mark.
That is because the photographs of Buddhist statues at a temple in Fukushima that had been cut down by this Korean, Chong, were exactly the same as the scene I had discovered at Daikakuji.
The following is an excerpt from the article.
The parts marked * to * are mine.
December 11, 2016… It was also around this time that I discovered the above scene at Daikakuji.
(Why does the Ministry of Justice allow an unemployed person carrying an iron bar to travel here?)
All of this is also caused by the fact that our government, the Liberal Democratic Party, Komeito, the Democratic Party, and the Ministry of Justice simplified entry into Japan for Koreans and Chinese.
Visa-free travel should be prohibited immediately.
In the first place, why do we so easily permit entry by China and Korea, super-anti-Japanese countries that place our country first among their hypothetical enemy states?
Most of the money they bring in is probably counterfeit.
Korean coins are deliberately made to look exactly like our 500-yen coins.
South Korea is a nation of a naturally criminal race that impersonates everything.
From https://quasimoto2.exblog.jp/23459802/.