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Mimasaka Kokubun-ji Temple

Tsuyama, Japan

Mimasaka Kokubun-ji is a Tendai sect Buddhist temple in the Kokubunji neighborhood of the city of Tsuyama, Okayama, Japan. Its honzon is a hibutsu statue of Yakushi Nyōrai. The temple claims to be the successor to one of the provincial temples established by Emperor Shōmu during the Nara period (710–794). Due to this connection, the foundation stones of the Nara period temple were designated as a National Historic Site in 2004 with the area under protection expanded in 2009.

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