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28.Josenji and Hasshoji Amidado Temple

城泉寺阿弥陀堂【湯前町】|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 Josenji and Hasshoji Amidado Temple
Access 5617 Sedokuchi, Yunomae-machi, Kuma-gun, Kumamoto
Mapcode333 282 815*58
Contact 0966-43-2050  (Yunomae Town Board of Education)
Misc

This temple was built at the beginning of the Kamakura period (12th/13th century) by the powerful Kume clan who ruled the local region. It is the oldest wooden structure in all of Kumamoto Prefecture. The Amida Sanzon statues housed inside display distinct stylistic influences from Kyoto, thereby indicating a link between the temple and Kyoto.


Name Hasshoji Amidado Temple
Access 5427 Sedokuchi, Yunomae-machi, Kuma-gun
Mapcode333 312 085*58
Contact 0966-43-2050  (Yunomae Town Board of Education)
Misc

Hachisho-ji Amida-do is a cultural property designated by the prefecture, with three columns of girders and three columns of beams. Shafts and braids retain their original shape. Inside the Amida-do there is a nationally designated important cultural property, in which a wooden Amida Nyorai and a two-sided samurai statue made in 1490 are enshrined.

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