英語版のサイトに "Bonotsu in Kagoshima" のページをアップロードしました：
http://handejapan19.html.xdomain.jp/index.html
坊津は枕崎の西に位置し、東シナ海に断崖が続き、岬と岬の間の入り江に小さな集落が点在しています。
奈良時代から平安時代にかけては遣唐使の船の発着港として栄え、博多津、安濃津と共に日本三津と言われたそうです。
そしてまた坊津は753年に、鑑真和上が苦労の末、日本に辿り着いた際に上陸した地です。
Bonotsu in Kagoshimaのページへどうぞ：
http://handejapan19.html.xdomain.jp/TravelDestinations/Kyushu/Bonotsu_E.html
日本語版では、下記のページで紹介しています：
http://shanehsmt.html.xdomain.jp/Travel/Japan/Kyushu/Bonotsu.html
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My English site:
http://handejapan19.html.xdomain.jp/index.html
Bonotsu is a small port town, located on the west coast of Satsuma Peninsula in Kagoshima Prefecture.
In the Asuka Age (592 - 710) and the Nara Age (710 - 794) of Japan (from the seventh century to the nine century), Japan sent envoys to Tang Dynasty China to learn Chinese culture and civilization.
Bonotsu was one of ports of call of Japanese envoys to Tang Dynasty China.
Priest Jianzhen, "Ganjin" in Japanese, (688-763) was invited from Tang to introduce the precepts of Buddhism.
Jianzhen made four attempts to cross the East China Sea to Japan from 743, but all these four attempts were failed because of storms and intervention by Chinese Government.
In 753, Jianzhen made the fifth attempt, but it was also failed due to the storm, and his ship was drifted to Hainan Island. Because of very sever conditions, Jianzhen lost his eyesight.
In 753, he had a chance to get aboard on a Japanese emissary ship returning to its home country, and finally Jianzhen landed to Japan.
If you take a connecting bus from Makurazaki Station to Bonotsu, you will see a, so-called. "ria" coast, which is a highly indented coastline.
In Bonotsu, combinations of a cape and a beach continues. Each beach has a port and a village.
I got off a bus at Bo Village, where the first beach and the village from Makurazaki.
At the north end of Bo Village, the tourist information center is located.
This is the site of guardhouse of the Bo Port.
Behind the tourist information center, you will see "Sokenishi", Twin Sword Rocks.
In 753, Priest Jianzhen arrived at not the Bo Port, but the Akime Port in Bonotsu, where approximately ten kilometers north from the Bo Port.
After Priest Jianzhen arrived at Akime in Bonotsu, he went to Nara and founded Toshodaii Temple in Nara.
Priest Jianzhen made great contributions for prosperity of Buddhism in Japan.
Please refer the page of "Toshodaii Temple in Nara" for more detail:
http://handejapan19.html.xdomain.jp/TravelDestinations/Kansai/ToshodaijiTemple_E.html
It was pity that I had no time to visit Akime, because the return bus to Makurazaki gave me only thirty minutes in Bonotsu.
I believe Priest Jianzhen saw the scenery of Bonotsu in his heart, when he arrived Japan, at Akime.
Please visit the homepage article for more detail.
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