Do you have photos of Statues?

[Lester Wareham]

bust of Winston Churchill by Imre Varga (Bronze bust, 2003) in City Park neighborhood, Zugló district, Budapest.
Tra Winston Churchill szobra A_001 by Lester W, on Flickr

 

[fotoi]

This statue is slightly freaky to be fair. What is it representing?

A dinosaur of some type?

 

[Skygod44]

Surprise, surprise.
A statue of a samurai.

And here's a close up.

Cheers for now,
Simon

 

[fotoi]

Ostia Antica, Italy.

 

[Skygod44]

After the British-Satsuma War in 1863, caused by the slicing up of poor Charles Richardson, by a couple of overly zealous samurai, the Satsuma Domain sent 19 young men to the UK to learn our ways.

This is the top of the statue in central Kagoshima commemorating their adventure.

Scary.
But kinda cool too.

Cheers for now,
Simon

 

[Lubos-PM]

Clervaux, Luxembourg

 

[fotoi]

Briesbach, Germany.

 

[saraspics]

We were in a small town in Burgundy (Saulieu) and at the time the town was littered with statues of King Kong in various colors-kind of like the cows you see inother places.

 

[Jos]

Bonifatius-Denkmal in Fulda Germany

 

[Lubos-PM]

 

[Jos]

In Sand in Taufers Sud tirol Italy

 

[Lubos-PM]

 

[Jos]

Playing children in Garderen Netherlands

 

[Skygod44]

A very Samurai era theme today.

Some monk chatting to a daimyo, according to the plaque.

Cheers for now,
Simon

 

[Skygod44]

The weird statues I mentioned in today's Show us your Leaves thread.

Almost like something from Spirited Away...
...but they're not.

Cheers for now,
Simon

 

[Skygod44]

A kappa, or river spirit statue.

Next to a piece of bridge, rescued from a collapse in 1918 due to floods.

Cheers for now,
Simon

 

[Skygod44]

Another of today's statues.
A woman holding a stick, which seems to have a dragon head biting it, but with the body of a lamp.

And she is outside a temple which has elephant heads on the tops of the columns supporting the roof.

I'm clueless on this one...

Cheers for now,
Simon

 

[Lester Wareham]

Heroes' Square, Budapest
Tra Heroes' Square A07_001 by Lester W, on Flickr

 

[Capn Jack]

We were in a small town in Burgundy (Saulieu) and at the time the town was littered with statues of King Kong in various colors-kind of like the cows you see inother places.

It reminds me of the Donkey Kong game with the barrel.

 

[Capn Jack]

Robin Hood, in Nottingham

JAK_0873 by Jack Silver, on Flickr