At the start of my second day walking the Chugoku Kannin Pilgrimage I was at Yokeiji Temple on a hilltop overlooking the Yoshii River.
The temple dates to 749 but the pagoda is much more recent. The lotus were blooming and I posted earlier on that here
There were numerous shrines and temples within the complex which was a site of Shinbutsu Shugo since the Heian Period, that is to say the kami and the buddhas were worshipped together.
Yokeiji is the third name for the temple here, having been renamed twice.
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Very nice. I'll have to look up to see where and how pagoda architecture developed.
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