Burnt out building Marutamachi dori, Kyoto.

The three curses of Heian-kyo (ancient Kyoto):

Sohei (warrior monks)
Flooding of the Kamo River

And fire...


unfortunately I never got to see the first of these three curses but I saw the Kamogawa flood and came across a couple of burnt out buildings such as this so the other two still exist to some degree

(Uploading some old images)
Note that the lower left corner looks a bit rough as it has been heavily edited to remove a parked motorscooter.. I'm out of practice and kind of getting rusty at cloning out large objects like that... sorry :(