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Zentsuji, Kagawa Prefecture
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Young Kobo Daishi played in this area as a child, building mud Buddha statues and plant temples. The field where he played was called Sen-yugahara (Field Where Hermits Play).
A saint appeared from a cave on Mt. Koyama and told Kobo Daishi to build a temple there. That cave, located to the left of the Daishido Hall, became the birthplace of Koyamaji Temple.
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Young Kobo Daishi played in this area as a child, building mud Buddha statues and plant temples. The field where he played was called Sen-yugahara (Field Where Hermits Play).
A saint appeared from a cave on Mt. Koyama and told Kobo Daishi to build a temple there. That cave, located to the left of the Daishido Hall, became the birthplace of Koyamaji Temple.
The temple's name comes from the mountain's shape, which resembles the armor (甲) of Bishamonten. A statue of this warrior deity still sits in the cave where the temple originally began 1,200 years ago.
Koyama-ji is Temple No. 74 on the 88-temple Shikoku Pilgrimage, making it a fixed stop for henro pilgrims.
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