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Medieval (High and Late)Site Name: Matsuo Jinja shrine Alternative Name: 松尾神社Country: Japan
NOTE: This site is 1.474 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Honshū Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Nearest Town: HigashiŌmi (Shiga pref.) Nearest Village: YōkaichiHamano-chō 八
Latitude: 35.114710N Longitude: 136.193270E
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
Behind the wooden building of the Shinto shrine, huge rocks are rolling. They seem to be a random assembly of natural stones but they form the artificial arrangements of bridge, crane and tortoise (both are the symbols of longevity and eternity) shapes which are the principle elements of the dry landscape gardens.
Although it lies in the heart of Yōkaichi (八日市) town, only discovered as a dry landscape garden not a natural outcrop by the modern gardener Mirei SHIGEMORI (1896-1975) in 1936. This garden is supposed to be originally constructed for a temple or a samurai's residence, after the collapse of the original building a shrine seemed to be built to warship the solemnity of the stones.
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