Ex-PM Hosokawa unveils sketches for paintings to be offered to Nara temple

Ex-PM Hosokawa unveils sketches for paintings to be offered to Nara temple

Former Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa shows the press a scale model of sketches for paintings he is working on at the Tokyo branch of Yakushi-ji temple in the Japanese capital on Sept. 7, 2015. The paintings, depicting scenes of a Tripitaka Master's "Journey to the West" along the Silk Road, will be dedicated to the temple in Nara Prefecture, western Japan, in 2019 for use on "fusuma" (sliding doors) and as wall murals. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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