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A Jodo Shinshu temple on the old Mito Kaido where Shinran Shonin is said to have spread the Nembutsu teaching
About 8 min walk from JR Matsudo Station
1505 Matsudo, Matsudo, Chiba
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A Jodo Shinshu (Honganji) temple in Matsudo City, Chiba, connected to the eastward missionary journey of Shinran Shonin. The principal image of Amida Nyorai embodies the teaching of entrusting oneself to the Other Power. The temple developed alongside Matsudo as a post station on the Mito Kaido in the Edo period.
According to temple tradition, the founding of this temple is connected to the visit of Shinran Shonin around 1215 (the Kenpo era, 1213–1219), when the founder of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism is said to have passed through this area on his journey from Hitachi Province (present-day Ibaraki Prefecture) back…
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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