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Hojumatsu of Kezoji Temple

Rikuzentakata City

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    This is a 20m tall Japanese black pine located within the grounds of Kezoji Temple, and its flowering habits are opposite to those of other trees. Ordinary pine trees have one or two female flowers at the tips of new branches, and the male flowers gather below, but in this pine, the female flowers gather in the center of the branches, and the male flowers appear above and below them. Therefore, it is called ``Hojumatsu'' because dozens of pine cones gather together and look like ``Hojumatsu''. Nationally designated natural monument (designated in 1933)

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    35 Monzen, Otomo-cho, Rikuzentakata-shi, Iwate 029-2207
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    Cultural Property Section, Administration Division, Board of Education
    Tel: 0192-54-2111
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    The temple is said to have been founded by Kigai, the son of Eisai Hoshi of Kenninji Temple in Kyoto. It has a garden with a three-story pagoda, a large statue of Buddha, and a statue of Niou, and a row of huge cedar trees, with azaleas in full bloom in early summer. The three-story pagoda in the garden (a cultural property of the prefecture) is a wooden structure with a copper shingle roof built in 1809. There is also a seated statue of Saint Kannon, designated as a tangible cultural property by the prefecture, and a sarusburi, designated as a natural monument by the prefecture. Kesen Sanjusan Kannon 29th temple ・Oshu Sanjusan Kannon 29th temple

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