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2007/3/20

粉河寺 Kokawa-dera Kokawadera Temple

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Kokawadera Temple, or formally Fumo-san Kokawadera Temple, is an old and distinguished temple located in Kokawa, Kinokawa City, Wakayama Pref. This temple is known for being referred to in Makura no Soshi (the Pillow Book). This is the third temple in Saigoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage and the headquarters of Kannon temples in Kokawa area. In its most flourishing days, the temple had the formal seven buildings, 550 sub-temples, and the fief of 40,000 koku, which came next to Enryakuji Temple in Mt. Koya and Negoro Temple in rank, but was destroyed by fire during Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s Kishu Attack. The temple was restored later in the Edo period. The temple has as large as 35,000 tsubo (115,000 square meters) of precinct, as long as 200 m of front approach, and as many as 20 large and small buildings, from which one can imagine its flourishing days. The Omon Gate, the Nakamon Gate, the Main Hall, and Senju-do Hall are all nationally designated Important Cultural Properties. The illustrated history, Engi Emaki of the temple in Shihon-Chakushoku style (paper-based, colored), is a National Treasure painted by a great painter, Toba Sojo (1053-1140).

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address
2787 Kokawa, Kinokawa, Wakayama Prefecture 649-6531
name
Kokawadera Temple
phone
0736-73-4830




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