Mount Misen 弥山
The flame lit by Kūkai in 806 is still burning: the fire of 20/05/2026 razed only the hall.
Sacred mountain in the centre of the island of Miyajima, opened to worship, according to tradition, by Kūkai in 806, when he carried out a hundred-day retreat there: since then the flame of the Hall of the Eternal Fire has been handed down as the one he lit on that occasion, tended for centuries.
Hiroshima
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