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is a Buddhist temple that, from the legend, was founded in 805 by the monk Saichō, in Kita Sakasegawa,
was a statue of Buddha in Hyōgo Prefecture which originally was built in 1891 on donation of a wealthy merchant, and was 3rd biggest Buddha statue in Japan. A photo of it is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Melted down in 1944 for the ''Metals recovery ordinance'' and was replaced in 1991 by new statue. Current statue have size of 11 meters (18 meters with pedestal), 60 tons weight. The eye-opening ceremony () was held in May, 1991.
Page at Official Kobe Tourism Site
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Hyōgo-ku, Kobe
is one of nine wards of Kobe, Japan. It has an area of 14.56 km2 and a population of 106,322 (as of January 1, 2015).
The area's location with a natural harbour near the Akashi Strait which links Osaka Bay and the Seto inland sea has been ...
, Hyōgo Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Hyōgo Prefecture has a population of 5,469,762 () and has a geographic area of . Hyōgo Prefecture borders Kyoto Prefecture to the east, Osaka Prefecture to the southeast, an ...
, Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
. Saichō (of the Tendai sect) placed a statue of Yakushi Nyorai of his own making in the temple hall and named the temple .
This temple served as a branch temple of Kyoto's Shōren-in from the early Edo period to the beginning of the Meiji period.
The (a Buddhist pilgrimage route in Japan) includes this temple as one of the stops.
Main building
Any remains of Nōfuku-ji were vanished, and now replaced by main hall, which was built in 1953. It was damaged during the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995, and reconstructed in 1997.Hyōgo Daibutsu
was a statue of Buddha in Hyōgo Prefecture which originally was built in 1891 on donation of a wealthy merchant, and was 3rd biggest Buddha statue in Japan. A photo of it is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Melted down in 1944 for the ''Metals recovery ordinance'' and was replaced in 1991 by new statue. Current statue have size of 11 meters (18 meters with pedestal), 60 tons weight. The eye-opening ceremony () was held in May, 1991.
See also
*Thirteen Buddhist Sites of Kobe
The Thirteen Buddhist Sites of Kobe（神戸十三仏霊場, ''Kobe jūsan butsu reijō''）are a group of 13 Buddhist sacred sites in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. The temples are dedicated to the Thirteen Buddhas, and the temple grouping was establ ...
* Buddhist temples in Japan
* Glossary of Japanese Buddhism
* Tourism in Japan
References
External links
Page at Official Kobe Tourism Site
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