Japanese novelists & Mt. Akagi 24 Monday Sep 2012 Original size at 529 × 353 ≈ Leave a comment Kourin Takamura (sculptor of Meiji, 1852-1934) and his son Koutarou (novelist, poet and sculptor, 1883-1956) at Akagi shrine in 1929. Akagi shrine is Kourin’s guardian deity of his birthplace (Ubusunagami).