Concerning [Buddhist] temples, images and things pertaining to the practice of their religion

Buddhist temples is a single or double-roofed gateway, with highly coloured figures in niches on either side; the paved temple-court, with more or fewer stone or bronze lanterns; amainu, or heavenly dogs, in stone on stone pedestals; stone sarcophagi, roofed over or not, for holy water. The bell at the Buddhist temple of Chion-in weighs more than seventy tons and is two meters in diameter and six meters tall. The Buddhist priest Dosho is said to have been the first person cremated in Japan. It is not clear why the Jesuits paid so little attention to this somewhat regionally-specific folk religion. Buddhist images were generally cast or carved in wood. For instance, Buddhist temples generally feature guardian demons that are usually painted red. Today one might suggest that the Japanese side of this distich bespeaks the greater religious tolerance of the Japanese as compared with European Christians.