A Jodo Buddhist temple in Hyakunincho, Shinjuku Ward, a historic family temple of the Okubo district founded in the Edo period.
The principal image is Amida Nyorai, a community family temple continuing to convey the Pure Land teachings based on Nembutsu faith.
Okubo Hyakunincho was a district where the Tokugawa shogunate's riflemen unit (Hyakunin-gumi) barracks were located in the Edo period, and …
Sourinji is a Jodo Buddhist temple traditionally said to have been founded in 1660 (the 3rd year of Manji). Its principal image is Amida Nyorai, and the temple is rooted in the Pure Land teachings of Nembutsu practice. The temple's founding district, Okubo Hyakunincho, was home to the barracks of th…
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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