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The Matsudaira ancestral temple where Ieyasu abandoned thoughts of suicide after Okehazama — its 'vista line' to Okazaki Castle keep is famous.
名鉄名古屋本線名電山中駅徒歩20分
5-1 Kamodamachi-Hiromoto, Okazaki, Aichi
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Daiju-ji Temple is a Jodo-shu Buddhist temple in Okazaki City and the ancestral mortuary temple of the Matsudaira and Tokugawa families. Founded in 1475 by the fourth head of the Matsudaira clan, it is famous for the story that Tokugawa Ieyasu fled here after the defeat at the Battle of Okehazama in 1560, and was dissuaded from suicide by the abbot's teaching. The precinct houses life-sized memori…
Daiju-ji Temple was founded in 1475 (Bunmei 7) by Matsudaira Chikamitsu, the fourth head of the Matsudaira clan, with the monk Seiyo Gusoku as its founding abbot. Established as the bodai-ji (ancestral mortuary temple) of the Matsudaira family, it served as a spiritual cornerstone for the clan throu…
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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