A Jodo Buddhist temple in Hiratsuka, founded in the early Edo period. Travelers on the Tokaido road visited to pray for safe journeys, and the six Jizo stone statues in the grounds watched over those passing by.
Shorin-ji Temple is said to have been founded around 1620 (the 6th year of the Genna era) as a Jodo Buddhist temple enshrining Amida Nyorai as its principal object of worship. With the establishment of the Edo shogunate and the development of the Tokaido highway, Hiratsuka-juku flourished as a post …
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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