A stone marker outside a traditional machiya house in Hakata’s old temple quarter (Gion district), just steps from Tochoji Temple and Kushida Shrine — the carved characters are likely a temple name, though too weathered here to confirm. This neighborhood is one of Fukuoka’s oldest, tracing back to the 13th century when the Zen monk Shoichi Kokushi helped found the area’s temples.
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