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Mantomi Todaiji Gayo Site

Seto, Japan

The Mantomi Tōdai-ji Tile Kiln ruins (Mantomi Tōdaiji kawara gama ato) is an archaeological site containing the remnants of a number of anagama kilns, from which the roof tiles for the Kamakura period reconstruction of the temple of Tōdai-ji in Nara were made. The site is located in the Seto neighborhood in Higashi-ku in the city of Okayama, Okayama Prefecture in the San'yō region of Japan. It was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1927, with the area under protection expanded in 2004.

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