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The seat of the Kishu Tokugawa, one of the three branch houses. The keep is a reconstruction.
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Kongobuji and the Danjo Garan
Kukai's mountain monastery, laid out so that the position of each hall and pagoda maps a mandala.
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Kongo Sanmaiin
A pagoda said to have been raised by Hojo Masako, and the oldest building on the mountain.
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Kokawadera
A Momoyama garden of massive upright stones built into the slope before the hall - a composition without parallel.
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Kumano Hongu Taisha
The centre of the Kumano shrines; on the old river-island site now stands only a 34-metre torii.
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Kumano Nachi Taisha and Seiganto-ji
A vermilion pagoda and a 133-metre waterfall in one frame - the fused Shinto-Buddhist landscape left intact.
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Kumano Kodo Nakahechi
A pilgrim road walked by emperors and peasants alike, its ninety-nine wayside shrines turning distance into devotion.
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Fudarakusanji
From here monks were sealed alive into small boats and set adrift toward the southern sea; a replica boat stands in the grounds.
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Niutsuhime Shrine
Dedicated to the deity said to have granted the land for Koyasan; its arched vermilion bridge stands in a mountain clearing.
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Jisonin and the Choishi Michi
Stone markers set every 109 metres up the mountain road - 180 of them over twenty kilometres, the path itself made form.
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Kuroe District
Plots were divided on the diagonal, so the houses step along the street like saw teeth.
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Yuasa Historic District
Where Japanese soy sauce is said to have begun; the brewers' houses and storehouses still line the lanes.
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Kamikura Shrine
A giant boulder is the deity, with a small hall wedged beneath it, reached by 538 steep medieval steps.
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Temple Lodgings of Koyasan
Around fifty of the mountain's 117 temples take guests, so their halls and gardens can be experienced from inside.
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Nyonindo and the Women's Path
While women were barred, halls stood at the seven boundary gates, and women walked the path that joined them.
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Gobo Temple Town
A town grown around a temple, its grid plan still legible in the streets.
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Kushimoto Coast
One of Japan's earliest stone lighthouses, by Richard Brunton, standing on the cliffs of Kashinozaki at the eastern end of Kii Oshima.
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Lacquer Wholesalers of Kuroe
The warehouses of the lacquer wholesalers survive, showing how making and distribution worked as one.
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Tomogashima Fortifications
Meiji brick gun batteries left on an island, now overgrown - engineering become ruin landscape.