Adashino

Japanese: 化野 - あだしの
Adashino
Located in Saga, Kadono County, Yamashiro Province, it was once a place of open-air burial, and in the early modern period, along with Toribenyama, was known as a crematorium. It is also written as Atashino or Tono. Today, its name remains in Saga Toriimoto Kasano-cho, Ukyo Ward, Kyoto City, and there is a Nenbutsu-ji temple on its grounds that houses about 8,000 abandoned stone Buddha statues.
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Japanese:
山城国葛野(かどの)郡嵯峨にあり,古くは風葬の地,近世は鳥辺山とともに火葬場として知られた。阿太志野,徒野とも書く。今日,京都市右京区嵯峨鳥居本化野町に名が残り,境内に無縁の石仏約8000を集める念仏寺がある。
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