Houkyoji Temple
Houkyoji Temple is also known as "Ningyo Temple," with a mound of dolls on the temple grounds and numerous dolls decorating the interior.Ningyo is a doll.Normally closed to the public, it is open to the public in spring and fall for doll exhibitions. Photography is not permitted inside the rooms or ....
Anrakuji Temple
Anrakuji Temple was originally founded by Juren Shonin and Anraku Shonin, disciples of Honen Shonin, who built a hermitage in Shikagaya.The autumn foliage is beautiful, and the Buddhist foot stone can be seen in the precincts of the temple.Every year on July 25, a midwind spell, "Shikagatani Pumpkin....
Shoden Eigenin
Shoden Eigenin is the Tatchu (temple on the grounds of a large temple) of Kenninji temple, where Shodenin and Eigenan are combined into one.There used to be a tea ceremony house (national treasure) called Jyoan, now located in Yurakuen in Inuyama City, Aichi Prefecture. 1996, the tea ceremony house....
Daiunin
Daiunin is usually private.Only special openings or advance reservations are allowed.In addition to the monument to Oda Nobunaga and Nobutada, there is the grave of Ishikawa Goemon.Ishikawa Goemon was a bandit of the Azuchi-Momoyama period (ca. 1594).He was captured in Bunroku 3 and roasted to death....
Ryosokuin
Ryosokuin is one of the pagodas of Kenninji Temple.Originally called "Chisokuin", it was destroyed by fire in 1552 and later rebuilt and renamed Ryosokuin.Ryosokuin Temple is usually closed to the public, but is open to the public on a special seasonal basis. A zazen experience is available by reser....
Reikanji Temple
Reikanji Temple is a nun monastery where five imperial princesses and imperial granddaughters served as abbots, and is also known as the "Gosho of the Valley.The main hall was donated by Ienari Tokugawa in 1795. The garden is an ornamental garden with a pond and Hannya-ji type stone lanterns.....
Enrian
Enrian was named after the hermitage from "Gongu-jo-do" and "Enri-edo" by Emperor Reigen.The temple fell into disrepair, but was restored in 1910 and became a nunnery with Tesshu Yamaoka's daughter as abbess.Enrian is a foliage viewing hole that can only be visited during the autumn foliage season.....
Kogenji Temple
Kogenji Temple is the Tatchu (temple on the grounds of a large temple) of Tenryuji Temple. It was originally founded by Hosokawa Mochiyuki in 1429.The temple was destroyed by fire many times, but in 1882, it was joined with "Ihoku Ken" and has remained to the present day.Normally closed to the publi....
Jojuji Temple
Jojuji Temple was founded in 810 by Jikaku Ennin (Tendai sect) at the behest of Emperor Saga.The Hojo (not usually open to the public) is the relocated residence of Tsunamura Date, and there is a hole in the interior to allow the young Tsunamura to escape.In front of the hojo is a Muromachi period p....
Daihoin
Daihoin is the Tatchu (temple on the grounds of a large temple) of Myoshinji Temple.It was built in 1625 as a family temple of Nobuyuki Sanada (brother of Yukimura Sanada), the first lord of the Matsudai domain in Shinano.The Roji Garden represented the clean world of Buddhism.Matcha green tea and t....
