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Tokyo, Japan, The wooden-plate prayer (Ema) in a Japanese shinto shrine at Ueno Onshi Park. Ema are plaques on which a person write a wish or a prayer. Kiyomizu Kannon-do in Ueno was built in the image of Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto on a smaller scale. This temple is now recognized as a national treasure and one of the oldest surviving temples in Tokyo.