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Kurotaki-ji Temple

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Kurotaki-ji Temple is a mountain temple with a sacred spring, important to Shikoku's pilgrimage routes.

Kurotaki-ji Temple
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What it is

  • A temple of the Koyasan Shingon sect.
  • It is the Okunoin of Tairyu-ji Temple, Shikoku 88 Sacred Places No. 21.
  • The 88th sacred site of the New Shikoku Mandala Sacred Places.
  • Believed to be the birthplace of mountain Buddhism.

What to see

  • The principal image is the Eleven-faced Kannon.
  • Kukai carved an Eleven-faced Kannon here.
  • A sacred spring called Akai no Mizu flows on the grounds.
  • Temple buildings constructed between 1716 and 1956.

Notes written by Japan Gems from facts in Japanese Wikipedia.

Where it is

徳島県那賀郡那賀町阿津江字黒滝山5 Open in Google Maps

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