Shikoku 88 Temple Pilgrimage No. 8, a celebrated Koyasan Shingon temple founded by Kukai in 815. Boasting one of the largest precincts among the Shikoku sacred sites, its magnificent complex features a vermilion-lacquered Niomon gate, a multi-storied pagoda, the Chunmon gate, the Main Hall, and Daishi-do. The three-storied pagoda, a Tokushima Prefectural Cultural Property, is particularly impressi…

Kumataniji Temple is traditionally said to have been founded in 815 (the 6th year of the Kōnin era) by the Buddhist monk Kūkai, known posthumously as Kōbō Daishi, during his pilgrimage through Shikoku. According to temple legend, Kūkai received a sacred piece of wood from a white-haired old man beli…