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Location
  
Kunisaki, Ōita

Country
  
Japan

Founder
  
Ninmon

Phone
  
+81 978-65-0253

Affiliation
  
Tendai

Website
  
www.futagoji.jp

Completed
  
718

Futago-ji

Address
  
1548 Akimachi Futago, Kunisaki, Oita Prefecture 873-0356, Japan

Similar
  
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Futago-ji (両子寺) is a Tendai Buddhist temple in Kunisaki, Ōita Prefecture, Japan. It is located on the slopes of Mount Futago, the highest mountain on the Kunisaki Peninsula. The temple was established in 718 by Ninmon and became the central temple of Rokugō-Manzan (六郷満山).

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The temple precincts are a Prefectural Historic Site included within a Special Zone of the Setonaikai National Park.

Kunisaki futagoji


Treasures

  • Seated wooden statue of Amida Nyorai (late Kamakura period) (Prefectural Cultural Property)
  • Stone tō (Kamakura period) (Prefectural Cultural Property)
  • Pair of wooden masks (1618, 1770) (Prefectural Cultural Property)
  • Stone tō (Nanbokuchō/Muromachi period) (City Cultural Property)
  • Stone tō (1468) (City Cultural Property)
  • Stone tō (Muromachi period) (City Cultural Property)
  • Stone Niō (1814), 245 and 230 cm (City Cultural Property)
  • Wooden statue of Jūichimen Kannon
  • Wooden statue of Fudō Myōō
  • Raigō painting

    • References

    Futago-ji Wikipedia
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