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Saimyoji Temple
西明寺Shiga · Kansai
The northernmost Kotosanzan temple, holding a main hall and a three-storey pagoda that both survived the sixteenth-century burning and are National Treasures. The pagoda's interior paintings are among the few of their period still in place.
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