Japanese monk Yoyu Mimatsu blows into a conch at a ritual burning of thousands of paper cranes sent to his Buddhist temple near Hiroshima - Copyright AFP Richard A ...

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Japanese monk Yoyu Mimatsu blows into a conch at a ritual burning of thousands of paper cranes sent to his Buddhist temple near Hiroshima AFP At a hillside temple, a monk in saffron robes blows a ...

MIYAJIMA (JAPAN) - At a hillside temple, a monk in saffron robes blows a refrain on a conch and begins chanting prayers as thousands of origami cranes donated to Hiroshima burn. For a decade, the ...

Miyajima: At a hillside temple, a monk in saffron robes blows a refrain on a conch and begins chanting prayers as thousands of origami cranes donated to Hiroshima burn.

While Daisho-in was willing to burn the cranes, they weren't sure what to do with the leftover ash. People burn garlands of origami paper cranes, a symbol of healing in Japanese culture, by the sea in ...