A Jodo-shu temple founded as a sub-temple of Zojoji during the Keicho era, counted among the thirty-six sub-temples of Zojoji with the status of a Tokugawa Shogun family prayer hall. Edo-period stone Buddha statues remain in the grounds, adding color to the historic landscape around Shiba Park. As one corner of the temple cluster closest to Tokyo Tower, it embodies the coexistence of city and fait…
Shojo-in is a Jodo-shu Buddhist temple founded as a sub-temple (tatchū) of Zojoji during the Keicho era (1596–1615). Zojoji itself was relocated to its present site in Shiba by Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1598 and developed as the mortuary temple of the Tokugawa shogunal family. Shojo-in is said to have been…
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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