A Jodo sect temple in Sawara, Katori, known as the bodai temple of Ino Tadataka, the great mapmaker who rose from Sawara merchant to creator of Japan's first accurate maps. The temple houses his grave. Sawara's wealthy merchants used this as their parish temple, revealing the relationship between Edo-period merchant culture and Buddhism.
Jokenji Temple is said to have been founded around 1500 (Meio 9) as a Jodo sect temple in Sawara, a prosperous hub of river trade along the Tone River. During the Edo period, it served as the parish temple of Sawara's wealthy merchant families, consolidating its standing alongside the flourishing co…
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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