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Medieval (High and Late)Site Name: Ankoku-ji temple Alternative Name: 安国寺Country: Japan
NOTE: This site is 17.307 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Honshū Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Nearest Town: Fukuyama (Hiroshima prefecture) Nearest Village: Tomo-chō 鞆町
Latitude: 34.388200N Longitude: 133.379700E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Modern Stone Circle / Monolith in Honshū
A temple in a beautiful fisherman village has a dry landscape garden built by a samurai-monk Ekei ANKOKUJI (安国寺恵瓊 1537?-1600) who was executed after the 1600 battle for Japanese unification hegemony.
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