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Jōdogahama
Sign in to save(lit. 'Pure Land Beach') is a series of rock formations along the coast of Miyako Bay in the city of Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. The area is part of the Sanriku Fukkō National Park, and is a nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty.
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Vinony's link graph records 7 inbound references to Jōdogahama, and connects out to Sanriku Fukko National Park, Japan and Iwate Prefecture.
The entry is geolocated on the map in landmark_region, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Beaches of Japan, IUCN Category III and Landforms of Iwate Prefecture.
Vinony links it to 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- beach
- Named after
- Pure land
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Miyako
- Body of water
- Miyako Bay
- Image
- Jyoudogahama.jpg
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- Commons category
- Jōdogahama
- native label
- 浄土ヶ浜
- located in/on physical feature
- Sanriku Coast
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(lit. 'Pure Land Beach') is a series of rock formations along the coast of Miyako Bay in the city of Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. The area is part of the Sanriku Fukkō National Park, and is a nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty.
==Overview== The area consists of groups of Paleogene period volcanic rock formations in a sandy beach area, which have been weathered by wind and rains into fantastic shapes. Together with Japanese red pine trees, the rocks form a natural version of a Japanese garden. The rock formations have inspired many fanciful names, and by the early Edo period has been identified in popular imagination with various landscape features of the Buddhist Western Paradise. The name of "Jōdogahama" was coined by a Sōtō Zen priest who toured the area in the Tenna era (1681–1684), and this name appears in the official records of Morioka Domain under the rule of Nanbu Toshitaka in 1797. The area was also popularised by the works of Kenji Miyazawa in 1917.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jōdogahama” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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