Hokkeji Meisho Garden - Hokkeji dates back over 1250 years to the Nara period. Empress Komyo used this as her palace residence, later converting it in

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Hokkeji Meisho Garden - Hokkeji dates back over 1250 years to the Nara period. Empress Komyo used this as her palace residence, later converting it into a convent calling it Hokke Metsuzai no Tera, which was later shortened to Hokkeji or the Temple of the Flower of the Law. The Meisho Garden is famous for its iris. The stones, trees and irises were brought from the Imperial Palace in Kyoto sentō gosho in the seventeenth century.

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Size: 5400px × 3600px
Location: Nara, Japan
Photo credit: © John Lander / Alamy / Afripics
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