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A businessman built it for his mother, copying famous temples across Japan, and crowned the hill with a garden of white marble.
About this place
Kōsan-ji (耕三寺) is a Hongan-ji school Jōdo Shinshū temple on the island of Ikuchijima in Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Founded by the industrialist Kōzō Kanamoto (later Koso Kōsanji) in 1936 in honour of his deceased mother, and with an area of approximately fifty thousand square metres, many of its structures are modelled upon the country's most famous historic temples and shrines. The Hill of Hope (未来心の丘, Miraishin no Oka) is a monument landscaped with five thousand square metres of Carrara marble, weighing some three thousand tons, by Kazuto Kuetani. The Kōsan-ji Museum houses over two thousand items, including nineteen Important Cultural Properties.
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Source ja.wikipedia.org ↗Key facts
Founded / opened：1936 Highlights / collection：Copy of Nikko Toshogu Yomeimon, 5,000-tonne marble garden Genre：Architecture, Sculpture, Outdoor art and land art
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