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[ japan.kiyomizu temple spring.2005 ]

According to legend, Priest Enchin built his hermitage and a small chapel here in 778 A.D.
With support from General Sakanoue no Tamuramaro, the Temple was erected in 798.
Many of the present buildings were reconstructed between 1631 and 1633 by order of Shogun Iemitsu Tokugawa.

 

walking up to the temple took us through market streets in kyoto.
 
 
 


it was in the hills over-looking kyoto