Shinobazu Bentendo

Shinobazu Bentendo

Also known as Benten-do

Year

1625

Type

building

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The Bentendo is an octagonal temple hall on a small island at the center of Shinobazu Pond, built in the early 1600s when the monk Tenkai shaped the marshy pond into a miniature of Lake Biwa near Kyoto. He raised the island in imitation of …

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