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Three Buddha Figures carved inside the Cave of the Five Hundred Arhats

Three Buddha Figures carved inside the Cave of the Five Hundred Arhats

About 1,300 years ago the monk Gyoki entered the caves of Mifuneyama and engraved Five Hundred Arhats into three caves, and carved the Three Buddhas in the far rock of the third cave. The water from the cave has long been used as a medicine water by many people.