SANBAGAWA, Gunma Prefecture--Benmou Suzuki’s dilapidated 420-year-old temple, located deep in the forest near a tiny Japanese mountain village, hardly looks like prized real estate. Yet the monk ...
Shikoku has a quiet, but profound presence in Japan's archipelago ... spot about 600m from the main temple, where a torii gate stands at the edge of a cliff, flanked by cedar trees.
Tsubosakadera temple in Takatori, Nara Prefecture, is known as a place where people can come to pray for eye diseases to be cured. Its main object of worship is a statue of the 11-faced ...
The rear of the temple is set against the mountain cliffs; at its front are open fields. The temple was first built during the Zhenguan period (627-249) of the Tang Dynasty, when it was also known ...
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