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A total of 26 bas-relief bodhisattva images are located in the direction of Ashi no Yu from the Hōkyōintō. Twenty-three bodies are carved on the east, south, and west sides of an andesite rock mass on the west side of National Highway No. 1, and three are carved on the rocks on the east side of the
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The Hitaki Jizō is carved on cliff near Seishin Pond on the west side of National Highway No. 1. The principal image is on the left with inscriptions on the left and right of the statue. On the right side, are two more Jizō Bosatsu carvings, which replicate the main image on a slightly smaller
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which date to the late Kamakura period, located further west of the Twenty-five Bodhisattvas grouping. Two of these are known in popular folklore as the graves of the Soga Brothers, the hero of the epic revenge story called the
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The stone sculptures comprise a 3.5 m seated Rokudō Jizō of 1299 (ICP); three Hitaki Jizō of 1311 (ICP), of which one measures 1.24 m and the other two are smaller; and twenty-five
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The main Rokudō Jizō is located on the east side of National Highway No. 1 from Seishin Pond. It is a sitting statue made of
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on three sides and has a bas-relief Buddha image on the fourth. There is an inscription with the dates of fifth month of
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highway. "Twenty-five Bodhisattva" usually refers to a grouping of 25 Bodhisattva including
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likened the volcanic area to Hell; consequently the site became popular for dedications to
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and is protected by a cover. There is an inscription of the first year of
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cuts the site into two. Kamakura-period travellers and the poet
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and located in the former village of Moto-Hakone, now
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In addition to the stone sculptures, there are three
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Location in Japan
Location in Japan
Hakone, Kanagawa
Japan
Kantō region
35°12′50.7″N 139°2′11.5″E / 35.214083°N 139.036528°E / 35.214083; 139.036528
Kofun
Kamakura period
National Historic Site of Japan

Jizō
Adolfo Farsari
sculptures

Kamakura period
merged
Hakone
Kanagawa Prefecture
designated
National Historic Site
Important Cultural Properties
Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park
二子山
神山
Tōkaidō
Japan National Route 1
Asukai Masaari
Jizō Bosatsu
bosatsu

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