Iwami Kokubun-ji (Q121990430)

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The Iwami Kokubun-ji (石見国分寺) was a Buddhist temple located in what is now the Kokubu neighborhood of the city of Hamada, Shimane, in the San'in regionJapan. It was one of the provincial temples per the system established by Emperor Shōmu during the Nara period (710 – 794) for the purpose of promoting Buddhism as the national religion of Japan and standardising imperial rule over the provinces. The temple no longer exists, and the site overlaps with that of existing and the more recent Jōdo Shinshū temple of Konzō-ji (金蔵寺), but a portion of the Nara-period temple grounds were designated as a National Historic Site in 1974.

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