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Daikoin (Ota)
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Founded by Ieyasu, home of child-rearing patron Donryu Shonin, with a Momoyama-style sanmon gate designated a National Important Cultural Property
Founded
1613
Type
Temple
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25 min on foot from Tobu Isesaki Line Ota Station
37-8 Kanayama-machi, Ota, Gunma
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Temple
Founded 1613
413 years
Enshrined Deity
阿弥陀如来
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Buddhist Sect
Jodo-shu
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Overview
A Jodo sect temple founded by Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1613 for the repose of Nitta Yoshishige. Affectionately known as 'Kosodate Donryu' (child-rearing Donryu). Because the founding monk Donryu Shonin took in and raised poor children, it gathered faith as a child-raising temple, with constant visitors praying for child rearing. A symbolic presence of Ota city, with the National Important Cultural Prope…
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Origins
Daikoin Temple is a Jodo sect temple founded in 1613 by Tokugawa Ieyasu to pray for the repose of Nitta Yoshishige, the progenitor of the Nitta clan. The temple's founding abbot was Donryu Shonin, the 56th head of Chion-in Temple. Donryu Shonin is said to have taken in and raised children who were f…
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Divine Benefits
Purification
Rebirth in Pure Land
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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Tokugawa Ieyasu
First Shogun of Edo
Age 70 at founding
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Tokugawa Ieyasu founded this Jōdo-sect temple in 1613 to pray for the repose of Nitta Yoshishige, ancestor of the Nitta clan. He invited Donryū, the 56th head of Chion-in, as founding priest. Under Ieyasu's patronage the temple flourished, and Donryū's compassion in sheltering poor children gave rise to the beloved "Kosodate Donryū" tradition of child-rearing prayers.
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