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FukuiShrines & TemplesIt is still a working training monastery. Dogen taught that not only zazen but cleaning, eating and washing the face are all practice. His Tenzo Kyokun sets out how to think about kitchen work, and its root is the same as the craftsman's work we have been following in this series.
FukuiShrines & TemplesIts great torii, eleven metres high, is counted with Itsukushima in Aki and Kasuga Taisha in Nara as one of the three great wooden torii of Japan.
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FukuiShrines & TemplesThe funerary temple of the Matsudaira, lords of the Fukui domain. On the Senjojiki behind it stand the great stone mausolea of the lord's family.
FukuiShrines & TemplesIt holds a National Treasure temple bell. Oda Nobunaga's ancestors are said to have been priests here, and the place name Ota is the origin of the family name.
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FukuiShrines & TemplesTrainee monks enter by this gate and do not pass out again until their training is done.
FukuiShrines & TemplesA precinct covered in moss. It is said once to have held 48 shrines, 36 halls and 6,000 lodgings.
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FukuiShrines & TemplesThe stage of Nobunaga's retreat from Kanegasaki. Known for the Hanakae festival.
FukuiShrines & TemplesThe only shrine in Japan to a deity of paper. It stands at the heart of Echizen washi country, and the carving on its halls is superb.
FukuiShrines & TemplesDivided into an upper and a lower shrine. A thousand-year-old cedar stands here.
FukuiShrines & TemplesIts Korean bell is a National Treasure, brought back during Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea.
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FukuiShrines & TemplesThe only shrine in Japan to a deity of paper. The inner shrine sits at the summit of Mount Gongen.
FukuiShrines & TemplesThe tutelary shrine of a kitamaebune port town. Floats come out for the Mikuni festival.
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FukuiShrines & TemplesIt enshrines Shibata Katsuie and Lady Oichi, on the site of Kitanosho Castle.
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