The 53rd temple on the Shikoku Eighty-Eight Temple Pilgrimage, a historic sacred site enshrining Amida Nyorai as its principal image. The precincts preserve Japan's oldest surviving Christian gravestone, dating from the 1610s, a cultural property that testifies to the rare coexistence of Christian faith and a Buddhist pilgrimage temple in the early Edo period. Traditionally founded by Kobo Daishi,…
According to temple tradition, Enmyoji was founded in 822 (Konin 13) by the monk Kukai (Kobo Daishi) at the imperial request of Emperor Saga, and the principal image of Amida Nyorai is said to have been carved by Kukai himself. The temple fell into disrepair during the Muromachi and Sengoku periods …
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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