Saimyō-ji (Mashiko)

Saimyō-ji (西明寺) is a Shingi Shingon Buddhist temple of the Buzan-ha located halfway up a mountainside in the town of Mashiko, Tochigi, Japan.

Built in 737 and rebuilt in 1492, it is one of the four oldest temples in eastern Japan.

The temple also has a stand of shikeidake, a decorative bamboo originally from China with four-sided, rather than round, stalks that grow to 30 feet in height.

-ji has been designated an Important Cultural Property by the Government of Japan.

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