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Nago-dera Temple
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thumb|200px|Tahōtō of Nago-dera (1761)
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- Location
- History
- Cultural Properties
- National Important Cultural Properties
- Chiba Prefectural Tangible Cultural Properties
- Tateyama City Tangible Cultural Properties
- References
- External links
thumb|200px|Tahōtō of Nago-dera (1761)
is a Buddhist temple located in the Nago neighborhood of the city of Tateyama, in southern Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It belongs to the Shingon-shū Chizan-ha sect and its honzon is a statue of Senjū Kannon Bosatsu (Sahasrabhūja). The temple is the 33rd and final stop on the Bandō Sanjūsankasho pilgrimage route of approximately 1,360 kilometers from Sugimoto-dera in Kamakura. The temple is also called Nago-dera using the alternate pronunciation of the final Chinese character in its name, or the , after its primary object of worship.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nago-dera Temple” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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