Sculpture of the Immortal Basuses at Sanjusangendo Temple in Kyoto: a standing figure of a thin man with long hair, holding a staff and a scroll in his left hand, with a sign on the ground next to him that reads 婆藪仙人, 'Basu sennin ' ('the Immortal Basu'). Basu (sanskr. Vasu) is depicted as an Indian ascetic; he appears in Japanese Buddhist temples as one of the assistants of Senju Kannon, the Thousand-armed Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara., Part of Album with 69 photos from a trip through Japan., photograph, anonymous, Japan, 1890 - 1894, cardboard, albumen print, height, 270 mm × width, 204 mm

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