Taisonji Temple (Shinjuku)
東京都
A Jodo temple at the gateway to Naito-Shinjuku post town, where a 3-meter wooden Enma statue and the Datsueba ogress have embodied Edo commoners' vision of the afterlife since the 17th century.
A Jodo Buddhist temple in Shinjuku, Shinjuku Ward, said to have originated when a person named Taiso built a hermitage during the Keicho period (1596-1615).
The principal image is Amida Nyorai, and the precincts' Enma statue and Datsueba statue are famous Buddhist images conveying the forms of Edo-period popular faith.
The 'Naito Shinjuku Enma Statue' in the precincts is a large Edo-period wooden …
The temple is said to have originated when a person known as Taiso built a hermitage on this site during the Keicho period (1596–1615). Though initially a modest retreat, the temple was established as a Jodo Buddhist institution in the early Edo period and came to be known as Taisonji. When the Toku…
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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