A Tendai temple founded in 850, popularly known as Narihira-dera, enshrining a Enmeijizo attributed to the Great Teacher Saicho (Dengyo Daishi). It is famous as the place where the poet Ariwara no Narihira spent his later years; the remains of the "shiogama" (salt kiln) where Narihira performed the elegant pastime of salt-burning still stand in the precinct. The bittersweet legend of Narihira burn…

Jurinji is a Tendai Buddhist temple founded in 850, traditionally said to have been established to enshrine a statue of Enmeijizo (the Life-Prolonging Jizo Bodhisattva) attributed to the Great Teacher Saicho (Dengyo Daishi). The temple is popularly known as Narihira-dera, a name derived from the cel…