Video: Buddha statue made of dead insects
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Many are afraid of living insects, some do not like them, and some admire them. Dead insects leave many indifferent, in some they cause disgust, and only certain individuals are ready for such a feat as creating a whole sculpture from dead beetles. Such a person is the 89-year-old Japanese Inamura Yoneiji, who in six years "raised" a statue of the sacred Buddha from dead insects.
If you look at this statue from afar, it seems as if it is made of precious stones of different shapes and sizes. But if you come closer and take a closer look …
Inamura Yoneiji spent six years collecting 20,000 beetles for this sculpture. Of course, all the bugs were alive before they fell into the hands of a diligent old man, but who knows, maybe the fact that they turned into a sacred deity will help their little souls to calm down and find peace after death?
Our hero says that after the end of the Second World War, Japan was poor in entertainment, and the children only had to catch and collect insects. This is how a childhood hobby became the meaning of his life, and now, many years later, an unusual piece of art flaunts in the exhibition hall of Gunma Prefecture in Japan.
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