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mouths with the water before performing the ascetic rituals, applies to the arrangement of the temple. When you pass through the main gate San-mon, the graveled path lined with Japanese cedars in the quiet of the evening echoes comfortably with the sound of footsteps of people visiting the temple.

The Chujaku-mon gate is closed during the nighttime, through which you can see Hon-do (the main hall) in front and Kaizan-do (the spirit tablet hall) on the left. On the right, O-join (a stateroom) is seen at the back of Shoro-do (a bell tower) where a temple bell cast by a living national treasure Masahiko Katori is hung.

In the Edo era, No-nin-ji was highly regarded as a famous temple with twenty branch temples in the Hanno region, to which fifty koku was contributed by the shogunate; however, it sometimes experienced rough times during its history, including the disaster of the Hanno War and the big fire in the second year of the Genbun era (1737).

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  • 本堂
  • 山門・仁王像
  • 中雀門
  • 鐘楼
  • 開山堂
  • 大書院
  • 大庫院
  • 鳳翔閣
  • 不動堂

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The garden of No-nin-ji

You can see seasonal changes in this temple, which is often crowded with many amateur photographers on holidays.

Chisen Kansho Horai Teien (the garden in a pond appreciation Penglai style) preserved as the north garden of Hon-do of No-nin-ji is 324 tubo (1,069m2).

・The garden is in the typical upper-lower, two-step style in which a symbolic waterfall is constructed at the back and a pond is placed under the waterfall, making good use of the steep slope of the south side of the Tenran-zan mountain.

The garden is presumed to have been made in the Momoyama era (1573 – 1603) and is selected as one of the 100 famous Japanese gardens because it represents many excellent methods and forms of the era, including the artificial hill, kamejima (a small island made with several stones that express the head, feet, and tail of a tortoise), tsurujima (a garden island made with several stones and a pine to suggest the flight of a crane), the stone bridge, the cave, and the pond whose bottom is completely lined with stones 20 cm in diameter. Thus this garden is precious in eastern Japan and is one of our precious cultural assets in Hanno.

・The entrance fee of 300 yen is charged to each person to see the garden and the main temple hall.

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