A Tendai temple in Minamiboso, a treasure house of cultural properties with numerous Important Cultural Properties. Said to have been founded in 718 when Gyoki Bosatsu carved an Eleven-Faced Kannon. The main hall, tahoto pagoda, and Yakushi Hall are designated National Important Cultural Properties. The tahoto is a Muromachi-period building, precious as representative tower architecture of the Awa…

Founded in 718 when Gyoki Bosatsu carved Eleven-Faced Kannon during his provincial pilgrimages. In the Heian period, it became a center of Awa's Buddhist culture as a Tendai temple. In 1180, Minamoto no Yoritomo is said to have visited this temple when fleeing to Awa. In the medieval period, it rece…