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Yakushidō of Yokeiji temple
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Yakushidō of Yokeiji temple
Municipally Designated Important Cultural Property (designated 2004)
Made: Rebuilt in Kyōhō 19 (1734)
Location: Yokeiji temple, Kitashima, Oku
Dimensions: Front: 10.595ｍ Side: 11.17ｍ
Yokeiji temple’s Yakushidō, so-called as it houses a statue of Yakushi, the Buddha of Healing, was constructed in 1596, near the end of the Momoyama period, and then rebuilt by local carpenters in 1659, in the early Edo period. The current building goes back to 1734, or the mid-Edo period. A rare old building whose history can be traced back to its original iteration, although it has been rebuilt twice, it has retained an old style of Buddhist temple architecture.
