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Hase-dera Temple mostly called Hase-kannon is located in Kanagawa prefecture, Japan. Hase-dera Temple is well-known as one of the Buddhist temples in the city of Kamakura, which formerly belonged to the Tendai sect of Buddhism, and later converted to an independent temple of the Jōdo shū.

According to the legend, in 721 AD, a religious monk Tokudo Shonin found a huge camphor tree in the high-woodlands nearby the town of Hase and realized that the trunk was massive, which could provide enough material to carve two statues of the eleven-headed Kannon. He did so and the creation is now preserved in Hasedera Temple near Nara. 

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