Tosa Kokubun-ji is a
Shingon Buddhist Temple located in
Nankoku, Kōchi,
Japan
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. It is the 29th temple of the
Shikoku Pilgrimage.
It is also the
Tosa Province
was a province of Japan in the area of southern Shikoku. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Tosa''" in . Tosa bordered on Awa to the northeast, and Iyo to the northwest. Its abbreviated form name was . In terms of the Gokishichidō syste ...
Sōja shrine
See Also
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Tosa jinja
is a Shinto shrine located in the Ichinomiya-shinane neighborhood in the northeastern part of the city of Kōchi, Kochi Prefecture, on the island of Shikoku, Japan. It is the ''ichinomiya'' of former Tosa Province. The shrine's main festival is ...
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Tosa Province
was a province of Japan in the area of southern Shikoku. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Tosa''" in . Tosa bordered on Awa to the northeast, and Iyo to the northwest. Its abbreviated form name was . In terms of the Gokishichidō syste ...
Ichinomiya
is a Japanese historical term referring to the Shinto shrines with the highest rank in a province. Shrines of lower rank were designated , , , and so forth. ''Encyclopedia of Shinto'' ''Ichi no miya'' retrieved 2013-5-14.
The term gave rise t ...
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References
Buddhist pilgrimage sites in Japan
Buddhist temples in Kōchi Prefecture
Kōyasan Shingon temples
Sōja shrines
Gō-sha
Temples of Shingon-shū Chisan-ha
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