Jizo statues and graves at Okunoin of Mount Koya, a sacred Buddhist site and cemetery. Opened in 835, it houses the mausoleum of Kūkai, founder of the Shingon school of esoteric Buddhism, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, East Asia

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