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Yoshino Mikumari Jinja
The word mikumari, water-parting, shifted to mikomori, child-guarding, and became a faith for conceiving a child.
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Mt. Yoshino
Thirty thousand shiroyama cherry trees. Shugendo practitioners planted them, generation after generation, as sacred trees.
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Kinpusenji Zaodo
Second only to Todaiji among wooden buildings; its columns are barely trimmed tree trunks, no two alike.
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Yoshino Cedar and Barrel Staves
Five centuries of planted forest, grown dense and slow so the rings stay fine - the timber that lines sake barrels.