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{| style="border-collapse:collapse" cellpadding="0" |style="border:1px solid black;"|alt=Yakushu-ji|x200px |style="border:1px solid black;"|alt=Kibitsu Jinja|x200px |} Two examples of kairō , , is the Japanese version of a cloister, a covered corridor originally built around the most sacred area of a Buddhist temple, a zone which contained the kondō and the tō. Nowadays it can be found also at Shinto shrines and at shinden-zukuri aristocratic residences.

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{| style="border-collapse:collapse" cellpadding="0" |style="border:1px solid black;"|alt=Yakushu-ji|x200px |style="border:1px solid black;"|alt=Kibitsu Jinja|x200px |} Two examples of kairō

, , is the Japanese version of a cloister, a covered corridor originally built around the most sacred area of a Buddhist temple, a zone which contained the kondō and the tō. Nowadays it can be found also at Shinto shrines and at shinden-zukuri aristocratic residences.

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