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A Nichiren-sect temple in the Asakusabashi area. As a center of Lotus Sutra faith, it has gathered the devotion of merchants and craftsmen from Asakusabashi and Kuramae since the Edo period. The temple has a history of supporting the wholesale district and kagai (geisha district) culture that developed along the Kandagawa River, and is a quiet old temple well worth visiting on a stroll through Asa…

The founding date of Dofukuji Temple is not clearly recorded, though it is said to predate the Edo period. The Nichiren sect was established by Saint Nichiren in the Kamakura period and spread widely across the Kanto region through the Muromachi and Sengoku eras. During the Edo period, the Asakusaba…