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Forty years ago Hannya-ji (般若寺) was rather down on its luck, its grounds gone to seed. The then abbot came across a single cosmos, and so started researching the flowers. Little by little he began to transform the precints, and now 150,000 cosmos plants grow here!
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It's now estimated that close to 150,000 cosmos plants grow in Hannya-ji's (般若寺) precincts😲
You can spot around 30 varieties🧐
The temple's 12.6m tall, 13-storied stone pagoda is the tallest in Japan. It was created in 1253 by Igyomatsu (a stone mason from Southern Sung).
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In 1185 Taira-no-Shigehira (平重衡) was executed by Tōdai-ji and his head nailed to Hannya-ji's torii.
Five years earlier he had led an attack on the powerful temples of Nara. After one of his men accidentally started a fire, he simply stood at Hannya-ji and watched the city burn.
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