紀州高野山奥院
Okunoin, Koyasan
Okunoin on Koyasan, where more than 200,000 gravestones and memorial towers stand among ancient cedars. The path from Ichinohashi Bridge to Kukai's mausoleum is about 2 kilometers long. "Kishu" in the title is Kii Province, today's Wakayama Prefecture.
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The photo's title is "Kishu Koyasan Okunoin." Kishu is another name for Kii Province, today's Wakayama Prefecture. Koyasan is a training center for Shingon Esoteric Buddhism, founded in 816 by the monk Kukai (Kobo Daishi) on land granted to him by Emperor Saga. It is in the town of Koya, Ito District, Wakayama Prefecture.
Okunoin is home to Kukai's mausoleum and is one of the most sacred places on Koyasan. This photograph is an early one, from the 1879 (Meiji 12) album Nihon Shokei Shashincho (Photographs of Scenic Japan).
Along the path of about 2 kilometers from Ichinohashi Bridge to the mausoleum, more than 200,000 gravestones and memorial towers stand among ancient cedars. In 2004 Koyasan was added to the World Heritage List as part of the Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range.
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- 『[日本勝景写真帖]』（明治12年10月）
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