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Kakuan-ji

Buddhist temple of the Shingon Risshu sect dedicated to Eleven-Faced Avalokiteśvara in Yamatokoriyama, Japan

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ11665046 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kakuan-ji (額安寺) is a Buddhist temple in Yamatokōriyama, Nara Prefecture, Japan. It is affiliated with Shingon Risshu Buddhism, and was founded in 621.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kakuan-ji” as buddhist temple of the Shingon Risshu sect dedicated to Eleven-Faced Avalokiteśvara in Yamatokoriyama, Japan. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current 23-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Kakuan-ji, Buddhist and temple can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as buddhist temple of the Shingon Risshu sect dedicated to Eleven-Faced Avalokiteśvara in Yamatokoriyama, Japan. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11665046. Authority coordinates are 34.601, 135.772. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Kakuan-ji”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Kakuan-ji primary sources, Kakuan-ji archive and Kakuan-ji research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Kakuan-ji”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Kakuan-ji” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.