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The “Throw-in” Temple // Japan

08/26/2018
The “Throw-in” Temple // Japan
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In the ground of Jokan-ji, also know as the ” Nage komi Dera / 投込寺 / the throw away temple” it said that the corpes of more than 2500 nameless women mostly in their early 20’s, sex workers of the yoshiwara district, where dumped between 1743 and 1801.

Red lipstick, hair pins and small feminine touches are still deposited in our day on the cenotaph