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Genkakuji
東京都
Founded 1624 and nicknamed 'Konnyaku Emma' — the clouded right eye of the Enma statue, which absorbed an elderly woman's ailment, and the July Enma Festival preserve Edo popular faith in Koishikawa
創建
1624 年
種別
寺院
Access
3 min walk from Korakuen Station (Tokyo Metro)
2-23-14 Koishikawa, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo
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Temple
Founded 1624
402 years
Enshrined Deity
閻魔大王
Founder
Joyo Zuiha
Buddhist Sect
Jodo
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A Jodo-sect temple founded in 1624, affectionately nicknamed 'Konnyaku Emma.' Famous for the legend of an elderly woman who offered konnyaku to the great king Enma and was miraculously cured of her eye ailment. The Enma statue in the Enma-do has a clouded right eye, said to be the affliction it accepted in her place. Beloved by Edo townspeople, it sits in Koishikawa shitamachi near Korakuen and To…
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Genkakuji is a Jodo-sect Buddhist temple founded in 1624 by the priest Ryoyo Kakuzen. Established in the Koishikawa district of Edo, it grew into a center of popular devotion among the common people of the city. The temple's widespread renown stems from a celebrated legend: an elderly woman sufferin…
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Tokugawa Ieyasu
First Shogun of Edo
Age 81 at founding (posthumous)
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When Ieyasu's mother Odai-no-kata died in 1602, Ieyasu rebuilt this temple grandly out of deep filial piety and renamed it after her posthumous name "Denzuin-dono." His granddaughter Senhime is also buried here. As one of the "Three Great Jodo Temples of Edo" alongside Zojo-ji and Reigan-ji, it enjoyed strong Tokugawa patronage.
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