Little Honch Shrine
Inside the little Enmei-Jizo-Son Shrine in Yokosuka, Japan’s Honch and dedicated to a guardian deity for children, including unborn and aborted. The statues are for lost souls of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 and for a mother and her children killed in a fire around 1930.
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