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Hie temple ruins

Nankoku, Japan

Hie temple ruins
Hie temple ruins. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

Hie temple ruins (Hie haiji ato) is an archeological site with the ruins of a Hakuhō period Buddhist temple located in the Hie neighborhood of what is now the city of Nankoku, Kōchi, Japan. The foundations of its pagoda were designated as a National Historic Site in 1934, with the area under protection extended in 1982.

Monument data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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