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2.Statue of 11-Faced Kannon at the Shiroyama Kannondo Temple

城山観音堂の十一面観音菩薩【山江村・山江村歴史民俗資料館寄託】|日本で最も豊かな隠れ里 日本遺産人吉球磨【熊本県】

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Name Statue of 11-Faced Kannon at the Shiroyama Kannondo Temple
Address 1360 Ko, Yamada, Yamae-mura, Kuma-gun, Kumamoto
Mapcode 195 887 218*85
Contact 0966-23-3665 (The Yamae Museum: Its People and Its Past)
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An 11-faced statue of the Kannon bodhisattva, the Goddess of Mercy. Its construction was ordered by the Sagara clan, who ruled the region during the Sengoku period, and the statue has been carefully preserved by the locals for generation upon generation.

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