Seiryu-ji is a Ji-shu (Time sect) temple on Shinkyogoku-dori and one of a cluster of temples founded along the road when Shinkyogoku was developed as a lively entertainment district in the Edo period. Inheriting the tradition of the Ji-shu itinerant monks who traveled the provinces spreading nembutsu, the spirit of the dancing nembutsu lives within the precincts. The principal image is Amida Nyora…

Seiryu-ji is a Ji-shu (Time sect) temple said to have been founded in 1680 (Enpō 8) during the development and organization of Shinkyogoku-dori under the Edo shogunate. Shinkyogoku was laid out in the latter half of the 17th century as a street connecting the gates of various temples and shrines, an…