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TAKATORI, Nara — Walking through the vast areas on the mountainside of Mt. Takatori, you will see many eye-related things: ema votive tablets with a large “me” (eye) hiragana character written on each one, and the Megane Kuyo Kannon (Buddhist deity of mercy) statue to which people dedicate their old...