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WakayamaShrines & TemplesThe head temple of the Shingon school, opened by Kukai. Along the approach to the inner sanctuary stand some 200,000 graves, from Sengoku warlords to ordinary townspeople. Lords who were enemies in life sometimes lie side by side.
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WakayamaShrines & TemplesAbout 49 metres tall. Its interior is a mandala rendered in three dimensions.
WakayamaShrines & TemplesThe area Kukai laid out first. Halls and pagodas stand around the golden hall.
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WakayamaNature & SceneryTwo kilometres of cedars, with over 200,000 gravestones. Sengoku commanders lie there without regard to which side they fought on.
WakayamaArchitectureKukai's mountain monastery, laid out so that the position of each hall and pagoda maps a mandala.
WakayamaArt & CraftsThe treasures of the whole mountain; Unkei's eight youthful attendants are unmatched as wrathful figures in boyish form.
WakayamaArchitectureA pagoda said to have been raised by Hojo Masako, and the oldest building on the mountain.
WakayamaArchitectureAround fifty of the mountain's 117 temples take guests, so their halls and gardens can be experienced from inside.
WakayamaArchitectureWhile women were barred, halls stood at the seven boundary gates, and women walked the path that joined them.
Many images here were carved for the mountain by the capital's leading sculptors, so the workshops can be traced.
Metal implements for esoteric ritual - made to be used, yet every form is a symbol.