A Jodo Shinshu temple that fought for Honganji, earned the Mori clan crest, and founded Hakata's first orphanage
A Jodo Shinshu Honganji-branch temple founded in 1529 as a hermitage by Shichiri Hayato (Shoku) and formally established in 1540. Its fifth head priest Shokai fought for the Honganji side in the Ishiyama Hongan-ji War (1570-1580) smuggling weapons in pilgrim-chests from Hakata to Osaka against Oda Nobunaga; for this service the Mori clan granted the "omodaka" crest still used today. In 1899 the Ry…
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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