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Ishiyama-dera
Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Ishiyama-dera is station 13 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon Buddhism, Heian aristocratic Kannon devotion temple in Shiga dedicated to Nyoirin Kannon....
Iwamoto-ji
Shimanto, Kochi Prefecture, Japan
Iwamoto-ji is the thirty-seventh stop on the Shikoku 88 and the only one enshrining five principal images simultaneously — Fudō Myōō, Shō Kannon, Amida Nyorai, Yakushi...
Iwanoue-dō
Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Iwanoue-dō is the twentieth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, a Rinzai Zen hall of the Nanzen-ji branch perched on a bluff above the Arakawa river....
Iwaya-ji
Kumakōgen, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Iwaya-ji is the forty-fifth temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage and a designated National Scenic Beauty....
Iyadani-ji
Mitoyo, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Iyadani-ji is one of three reizan — spirit mountains — of Shikoku, places where the souls of the dead are traditionally felt to gather....
Iyo Kokubun-ji
Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Iyo Kokubun-ji is the 59th fudasho on the Shikoku 88 and one of the original kokubunji established in 741 by Emperor Shōmu's edict to protect the realm....
Jigen-ji
Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Jigen-ji, thirteenth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, is a Sōtō Zen temple whose name — 'compassionate eyes' — is drawn from a verse of the Kannon Sutra....
Jikō-ji
Tokigawa, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Jikō-ji on Mount Toki, founded in tradition in 673 and as an institution in 770 CE, is one of the oldest Tendai mountain temples in the Kantō....
Jindaiji Temple
Jindaiji Motomachi, Tokyo, Japan
Jindaiji Temple (深大寺) is an active Tendai Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or...
Jinne-in
Kan'onji, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Jinne-in stands on Mt. Kotohiki in Kan'onji, Kagawa, sharing a single precinct with Kannon-ji at Temple 69 — one of the rarest configurations on the Shikoku 88....
Jion-ji
Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Jion-ji is the twelfth station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho pilgrimage, founded by tradition in the early ninth century by Ennin and named for Daji'en-si in Tang Chang'an —...
Jizō-ji
Itano, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Jizō-ji is Temple 5 of the Shikoku 88, in Itano, Tokushima. Within the principal Enmei Jizō image is a smaller Shōgun Jizō said to be carved by Kūkai....
Jodo-ji
Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Gokurakusan Jōdo-ji in Ono shelters two of the only Buddhist National Treasures in Hyōgo: the 1194 Jōdō-dō, a rare survival of Daibutsu-yō architecture, and Kaikei's...
Jōdo-ji
Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Temple 49 of the Shikoku henro stands in low hills south of Matsuyama, weathered and quiet beside its busier neighbours....
Jōdo-ji (Daijōritsu-in)
Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Jōdo-ji crowns a hill above the Onomichi waterway and serves as Chūgoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage station #9....
Jōraku-ji
Tokushima, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Jōraku-ji is the only temple of the Shikoku 88 dedicated to Miroku Bosatsu, the future Buddha....
Jōraku-ji
Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Jōraku-ji, eleventh station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, was the route's only Tendai temple through the Edo period before fire and Meiji-era reform reshaped it....
Jōren-ji (Tokyo Daibutsu)
Itabashi City, Tokyo, Japan
Jōren-ji (Tokyo Daibutsu) (乗蓮寺) is an active Japanese Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo....
Jōrin-ji
Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Jōrin-ji, seventeenth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, is a small Sōtō Zen temple founded as an act of warrior repentance....
Jōruri-ji
Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Jōruri-ji is the forty-sixth temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage and the first of eight in the Matsuyama cluster....
Jōsen-ji
Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Jōsen-ji is the third station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage in Saitama, Japan....
Jūraku-ji
Awa, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Jūraku-ji is Temple 7 of the Shikoku 88, in Awa, Tokushima. The 'Temple of Ten Joys' offers two specialized intercessions: an eye-healing Jizō beside the Hondō and a row...
Kabusan-ji
Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Kabusan-ji is a Tendai mountain temple in the hills north of Takatsuki, traditionally founded by En no Gyōja in 697 CE and held to be the place where Bishamonten was first...
Kagaku-ji
Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Banshū Akō Taiunzan Kagaku-ji is the Asano clan's family temple in Akō, founded in 1645 and made permanent home of Akō's memorial culture by the 1701–1703 vendetta of the...
Kakuman-ji
Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Kakuman-ji is one of the few Tendai Shinsei-shū temples outside the school's Sakamoto heartland near Mount Hiei....
Kakurin-ji
Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Totasan Kakurin-ji in Kakogawa shelters two National Treasure halls — a 1112 Taishi-dō and a 1397 Main Hall whose three-style synthesis is rare in Japan....
Kakurin-ji
Katsuura, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Kakurin-ji, Temple 20 of the Shikoku 88, sits high on Mount Washinō in Katsuura....
Kami Daigo-ji
Fushimi-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Kami Daigo-ji is station 11 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon-shū Daigo-ha temple in Kyoto dedicated to Juntei Kannon....
Kan'ei-ji
Taito City, Tokyo, Japan
Kan'ei-ji (寛永寺) is an active Tendai Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Kanjizai-ji
Ainan, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Kanjizai-ji is the fortieth stop on the Shikoku 88 — the first temple of the Ehime (Iyo) section, marking the pilgrim's transition from Tosa's discipline of asceticism...
Kannō-ji
Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Kannō-ji stands on the slope of Kabutoyama in Nishinomiya, holding one of Japan's three foremost Nyoirin Kannon images — a Heian-period figure carved by Kūkai in 830 from...
Kannon-in
Ogano, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Kannon-in — Shūkutsu-san Kannon-in — is the 31st station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage and the most physically demanding stop on the route....
Kannon-in
Tottori, Tottori Prefecture, Japan
Kannon-in in Tottori, the 32nd station of the Chūgoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage, was founded in 1632 as the Tottori-Ikeda clan's domain temple....
Kannon-ji
Tokushima, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Kannon-ji sits in a quiet residential street in Tokushima City, where the bell tower gate marks an unexpected threshold from ordinary domestic life into a small sacred...
Kannon-ji
Kan'onji, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Kannon-ji shares its precinct on Mt. Kotohiki with Jinne-in at Temple 68, but the two temples have separate histories and separate identities....
Kannon-ji
Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Kannon-ji is the twenty-first station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon Buzan-ha temple in central Chichibu locally known as Yano-dō ('Arrow Hall')....
Kannonshō-ji
Ōmihachiman, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Kannonshō-ji is station 32 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism temple in Shiga dedicated to Senju Kannon....
Kanshin-ji
Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Kanshin-ji holds one of the rare Japanese pairings where both the main hall and its principal image are National Treasures: the Heian-period Kondō and a seated Nyoirin...
Kanyō-ji
Shunan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
Kanyō-ji — Rokuon-zan Kanyō-ji — sits in the highland Kano basin of northern Shunan, Yamaguchi Prefecture....
Kasamori-ji
Chōnan, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Kasamori-ji is the 31st station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho — a Tendai temple in the forested hills of Chōnan, Chiba....
Katsuō-ji
Minoh, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Katsuō-ji is station 23 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Kōyasan Shingon-shū temple in Osaka dedicated to Senju Kannon....
Kegon-ji
Ibigawa, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
Kegon-ji is station 33 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism temple in Gifu dedicated to Jūichimen Kannon....
Ki-mii-dera
Sa, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
Ki-mii-dera is station 2 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Kuze Kannon-shū temple in Wakayama dedicated to Jūichimen Kannon....
Kichijō-ji
Saijō, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Kichijō-ji is the 63rd fudasho on the Shikoku 88 and the only temple on the route whose principal image is Bishamonten—Buddhist guardian-king of the north and one of the...
Kikusui-ji
Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Kikusui-ji — Enmei-zan Kikusui-ji — is the 33rd station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, a Sōtō Zen temple in the Yoshida district of Chichibu....
Kinshō-ji
Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Kinshō-ji is the fourth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage in Saitama, Japan....
Kirihata-ji
Awa, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Kirihata-ji rises 155 metres above the Yoshino plain on the slope of Mt. Kirihata....
Kiyama-ji (Kanji-in)
Maniwa, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
Kiyama-ji crowns Mt. Kiyama (430 m) in Maniwa, north of Tsuyama. Founded by Kūkai in 815 CE according to temple tradition, it is a Kōyasan Shingon-shū bekkaku honzan and...
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