Kōshō-ji, Yagoto (八事山興正寺) 八事山興正寺
The five-storey pagoda of 1808 is 26 m tall: the oldest surviving one in the prefecture.
Kōshō-ji was founded in 1688 on Yagoto hill, south-east of the centre, as a special-rank head temple of the Shingon school of Mount Kōya (the esoteric Buddhism brought to Japan by the monk Kūkai in the ninth century). The grounds are divided in two: the eastern part open to everyone, the western part historically reserved for the monks. The five-storey pagoda dates from 1808: twenty-six metres tall, in wood, three bays wide, with traditional roof tiles, and it has been a national Important Cultural Property since 1982. The grounds also hold a garden that charges admission, the Fumon-en, with an early twentieth-century tea house moved here from Gifu.
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