The 45th temple on the Shikoku Eighty-Eight Temple Pilgrimage, an ascetic training temple whose halls cling to the sheer cliffs of a remote mountain. The main hall and Daishi Hall are set into the rock face amid a jagged landscape of towering crags, and the temple is known as one of the most formidable trials on the Shikoku circuit, reached by climbing a steep training path fitted with iron chains…

According to tradition, in 822 (the thirteenth year of the Konin era), Kobo Daishi Kukai visited this remote mountain and received the sacred cliffs from a female ascetic known as Hokke Sennin, who had been practicing there. Daishi carved images of Fudo Myoo and enshrined them in the rock caves, est…