The history Kobo
Daishi realized Amida Nyorai at a ravine in the inner part where is three kilometers from
here, Jurakuji valley of today, he carved a camphor tree, he made the seated figure of
Amida Nyorai which is 1.9 meters high, he made it the principal image of Buddha and opened
Jufakuji temple, named it Komyozan Jurakuji temple because he wished that people escape
eight pains which man has and get ten preasuer of the land of Perfect Bliss, and he
decided to make it the seventh Buddhist temple. After that it was destroyed by fire of war
of Chosogabe's army, it was moved to the present place in 12 the Kanei era (1635). The
main temle at the time was the tiny building roofing whith thatch, the present main temple
was rebuilt in the Maiji era.
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fine view If you though the gafe bell
tower og the beautiful vermilion-lacguerred which suggestices of the Palace of the Dragon
King in a fairly-tale world in the same way as Anrakuji of the sixth Buddhist temple and
go through the middle fate, the excellent pine terrs grow thick in the spacious
precinects, beyound those there is the spacious main temple whith its back to a mountain.
There is Hojo, Kyakuden (the temple for visitors) on the right-hand side of the main
temple, if you go up the stone steps on the left-hand side of the fornt of the main
temple, there is Taishido at the orer high place, all buildings are worthy of the 88
Buddist temple in Shikoku and the buildings with a distincthive quality. It is that here
was the temporary palace for Tsuchimikado Joko (retired emperor), it is called Gosh
village formerly. Joko was exiled to Hata in Tosa at shokyu on ran(12211), after that he
lived from place to place in the provinece of Awa for eight years, and it was a piey that
he killed himself at thirth-seven years old so young. |