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Kiyomizu-dera

Kiyomizu-dera - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

is a Buddhist temple located in the city of Isumi in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. According to an alternate reading of the name in Japanese, the temple is also referred to as Seisui-ji, and is commonly known as the Kiyomizu Kannon. Kiyomizu-dera is the 32nd temple in the Bandō Sanjūsankasho, or the circuit of 33 Buddhist temples in Eastern Japan sacred to bodhisattva Kannon. Read more on Wikipedia

• type: religious building
• date from: 9th century (traditionally)
• official website: http://www.kiyomizudera.info/

Source: en.wikipedia.org