New Graffiti On National Treasure

[Mulboyne]

Japan Times: Vandals deface Horyuji Temple
Messages written in graffiti have been found on one of the pillars at Todaimon, a building and designated national treasure at Horyuji Temple in Nara Prefecture, police said. The messages, including one that said "I love everybody" in Japanese, are thought to have been scratched into the pillar with a stone or something similarly hard. The pillar is 1.25 meters in diameter. The messages appear in an area between 42 cm and 99 cm from the ground and are about 8 cm across.

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More graffiti on a national treasure.



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[Charles]

Oh gimme a break. Yeah it's really really bad to scratch graffiti on a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But it's not like this was defacing a priceless 1300 year old piece of wood. These wooden pillars, like every piece of wood in the temple, are periodically replaced, temples are typically rebuilt from scratch every hundred years or so. The last reconstruction was between 1933 and 1953.

[vince]

Anybody seen that 150 year old graffiti inside the kamakura buddha statue - it's like, you go inside and there is graffiti left by gaijin who visited shortly after the black ships - "captain Smith and his crew were here - 1869" - stuff like that - it was still there in the 60's - is it still there now??

[Taro Toporific]

Anybody seen that 150 year old graffiti inside the kamakura buddha statue - it's like, you go inside and there is graffiti left by gaijin who visited shortly after the black ships - "captain Smith and his crew were here - 1869" - stuff like that - it was still there in the 60's - is it still there now??

Sure the Black-Ship graffiti is still inside the Kamakura Daibutsu. As Charles alluded, the caretakers rescratch the Black-Ship graffiti every decade or so Japanese can point it out.]brownie points to the first to figure out just what Daibutsu Lobotomy is.
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[dimwit]

Oh gimme a break. Yeah it's really really bad to scratch graffiti on a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But it's not like this was defacing a priceless 1300 year old piece of wood. These wooden pillars, like every piece of wood in the temple, are periodically replaced, temples are typically rebuilt from scratch every hundred years or so. The last reconstruction was between 1933 and 1953.

Even more priceless -the graffiti said something like Miyu and Kazu 2000 so it has been around for about six years before anyone noticed it. My guess is that some earnest new transferee actually done went and looked at the place he's supposed to be working at. Probably, will get fined for goofing off on the job .