Kamakura
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A Tang-period staff head owned by Zentsuji in Kagawa Prefecture. It came over from China long ago and is said to have changed the metalwork made here.
Kandani Shrine Main Hall in Sakaide, dated 1219 by an ink inscription, is the oldest three-bay nagare sanctuary. Its roof, burned by lightning, was restored in 2025.
Built in the late Kamakura period on reused Nara lecture-hall foundations, Sanuki Kokubunji's main hall shelters a 5.2-meter Thousand-Armed Kannon, a hidden Buddha.
The Motoyamaji Main Hall in Mitoyo, Kagawa, a National Treasure of 1300: an esoteric hall dated by inscriptions on its ridge beam and a foundation stone.