Five-ringed pagoda-style Koshin Tower

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Five-ringed pagoda-style Koshinto Tower

Local tangible folklore November 1, 2006 City registration

In front of the shrine of Inari Shrine, the owner of the Noji Koya family, there is a Five-ringed pagoda made in andesite from the early Edo period. The location of the Honkoshin Tower is currently behind a residential area on the plateau, but originally it was the back mountain of Noji's house under the plateau. In front of the air ring, wind ring, fire ring slope, fire ring eaves and water ring, Sanskrit, the starting gate of the east of the Sanskrit of Five-ringed pagoda.
Five-ringed pagoda was built as a memorial tower in the Middle Ages, and was used as a grave tower for flagships in the early Edo period. There are very few cases where Five-ringed pagoda was used in the Koshin Pagoda, and the Koshin Pagoda became popular after the Kanbun period, and this Koshin Pagoda is also valuable as a precede.

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