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Kakuan-ji Temple

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Kakuan-ji Temple is a historic Shingon Ritsu temple with important cultural properties.

Kakuan-ji Temple
Yamato Koriyama City Office CC BY-SA 4.0 resized via Wikimedia Commons

What it is

  • A Shingon Ritsu sect temple.
  • Its mountain name is Kumagori-san.
  • Main deity is Eleven-faced Kannon.
  • Rebuilt in 1606.

What to see

  • Hōkyōintō pagoda, a prefectural cultural property.
  • Grave of Ninshō, a national cultural property.
  • Grave of Zengan Shōnin, a national cultural property.
  • Eight Gorintō pagodas, important cultural properties.
  • Black lacquered hexagonal zushi, a prefectural cultural property.
  • Main hall, a city cultural property.

Notes written by Japan Gems from facts in Japanese Wikipedia.

Where it is

奈良県大和郡山市額田部寺町36 Open in Google Maps

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