Tajima Kokubun-ji Temple

Tajima Kokubun-ji is a Buddhist temple located in the Hidaka-chō neighborhood of the city of Toyooka, Hyōgo, Japan. It belongs to the Jōdo-shū sect, and its main image is a Heian period statue of Yakushi Nyorai. The statue of a designated Tangible Cultural Property of Toyooka City. The temple is the modern successor of one of the provincial temples established by Emperor Shōmu during the Nara period (710–794) for the purpose of promoting Buddhism as the national religion of Japan and standardising control of imperial rule over the provinces. The foundation stones for the original temple were designated as a National Historic Site in 1990, with the area under protection extended in 2000, 2004, 2011, 2013 and 2015.

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