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Enter a giant wooden hall, free

Free, and the kezuna rope

Higashi Hongan-jiFree

Photos: Sjaak Kempe from Groningen, The Netherlands · CC BY 2.0 · lienyuan lee · CC BY 3.0 · Wei-Te Wong · CC BY-SA 2.0

Higashi Honganji's Goei-dō is free to enter. In its corridor is the kezuna, rope braided from hemp and donated women's hair that hauled the 1895 timbers.

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