Murō-ji 室生寺
In 1998 a 50-metre cedar, brought down by a typhoon, bent the roof of the pagoda.
Founded in the Hōki era (770–781), Murō-ji is known as the ‘Women's Kōya’ (Nyonin Kōya) because, unlike Kōyasan, it admitted female pilgrims. Its five-storey pagoda, about 16 metres high, is the second-oldest wooden pagoda in Japan after the one at Hōryū-ji; the Kondō and the pagoda are designated National Treasures (国宝).
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