Jodoji Temple in Ashikaga is known as a Jodo sect temple associated with the Ashikaga clan.
The principal Amida Nyorai is said to be a late Heian-period work, highly valued as a precious Buddhist statue.
As one of the Ashikaga clan family temples, it flourished from the Kamakura to Muromachi periods.
The grounds are wrapped in quiet environment, with the solemnity of a Jodo nembutsu training hall.…
Jodoji was founded in the Kamakura period as a Jodo sect temple.
Receiving Ashikaga clan devotion, it is said to have been patronized since Ashikaga Yoshikane's time.
The Ashikaga were a prestigious family that rose in the Kamakura period and later founded the Muromachi shogunate.
The principal Amid…
Cleansing impurity, spiritual purification, driving away evil. Rooted in misogi ablutions and goma fire rites.
Derived from the enshrined deity "阿弥陀如来"
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