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Moto-Hakone Stone Buddhas: Kamakura Cliff Carvings on the Old Pass
The Moto-Hakone Stone Buddha Group preserves over 20 cliff carvings and stone monuments from the late Kamakura period. A national historic site combining travel-prayers across Hakone Pass with mountain asceticism and Sai-no-Kawara folk faith.
The Moto-Hakone Stone Buddha Group is a national historic site of over 20 cliff carvings and stone monuments around Shojin-ga-ike Pond in Hakone, dating mostly from the late Kamakura period (13th-14th centuries). Travelers crossing the dangerous Hakone Pass prayed at these sites for safe passage. Famous monuments include the Twenty-Five Bodhisattvas cliff carving, the Oncho Jizo (1311), and a treasure pagoda traditionally said to be Tada Mitsunaka’s grave. The site fuses travel devotion, mountain asceticism (Shugendo), and Sai-no-Kawara folk faith for child spirits.
Last updated: May 2, 2026
Twenty-Five Bodhisattvas cliff carving at Moto-Hakone — late Kamakura period
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Rokudo Jizo — guardian of travelers crossing Hakone Pass
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Shojin-ga-ike Pond — known historically as Hakone's Sai-no-Kawara
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Treasure pagoda associated with Tada Mitsunaka
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Old Hakone Pass path — once the most difficult section of the Tokaido
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