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Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture
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Building the temple's original 900-meter roofed mud wall required approximately 20,000 workers, who compacted layers of soil by hand to create the distinctive puff pastry-like striations still visible today.
The temple houses the largest principal statue in the entire Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage: a 4.85-meter tall Eleven-Headed Thousand-Armed Kannon that towers over pilgrims.
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Building the temple's original 900-meter roofed mud wall required approximately 20,000 workers, who compacted layers of soil by hand to create the distinctive puff pastry-like striations still visible today.
The temple houses the largest principal statue in the entire Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage: a 4.85-meter tall Eleven-Headed Thousand-Armed Kannon that towers over pilgrims.
Sanuki Kokubun-ji is Temple No. 80 on the Shikoku 88 Pilgrimage, making it one of the final stops for henro pilgrims.
The temple's bronze bell was once borrowed by Takamatsu Castle to tell time during the Edo period, but after the feudal lord fell ill and misfortunes struck, it was hastily returned to its original home.
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