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Murasaki Shikibu was a novelist and poet in the mid-Heian Period. She is widely known as the author ...

Yodo-dono, whose real name was Chacha, was a concubine of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. She was born as a daug...

Priest Roben was a scholar monk in the Nara Period and one of the four saints who founded the Todaij...

Shunnyu Naigu was a Shingon Sect Monk, and a grandson of Sugawara no Michizane. He received religiou...

It was built in the approach to Ishiyamadera Temple in March 1800 to cerebrate Kiuchi Sekitei’s 77th...

It is a 90.9-centimeter-high large bronze bell-shaped vessel with a lattice-like pattern. It is beli...

In 1893, when a writer, Shimazaki Toson, was 22 years old, he resigned from his teaching job due to ...

This is a group of sutra scrolls passed down by the heads of the temple from generation to generatio...

In 808, when Kobo Daishi finished ascetic practices in the Tang Dynasty China, his master Huiguo gav...

During the Heian period [between the 9th and 12th centuries], visits to Ishiyama were popular among ...

Yoshihira, the first son of Minamoto no Yositomo, was famous for his bravery at his young age and wa...

Murasaki Shikibu lost her mother in her early years and was brought up by her father Fujiwara no Tam...

Ishiyamadera Temple is lively with many visitors as the 13th stop on the Saigoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimag...

This is a ceremony to confess and expiate one’s own sins by prostrating and reciting the 3,000 names...

Ishiyamadera Temple has been famous as a notable site for moon viewing. It is also known that Murasa...

Every year, August 26 is the day of a special relation with Bishamonten (Vaisrovana in Sanskrit), on...

This is a memorial service for the spirits of ancestors welcomed at the Sennichi-e Memorial Service ...

This is a memorial service that is held on the day that a one-day visit is worth the merits of the v...

This is the festival to commemorate the virtue of Rocho Risshi, a leading scholar monk of Ishiyamade...

This is a festival to celebrate the birth of Shakyamuni Buddha [also known as the Buddha]. The festi...

This is a grand festival of Sanjuhassho Gongensha Shrine that is held in May 5. Sanjuhassho Gongensh...

This is an important memorial service where the virtue of Kobo Daishi, the founder of the Shingon se...

The festival of hatsu-uma is a festival of the Inari Shrine which is worshipped as a place where the...

The Ishiyamadera Temple Japanese Plum Blossom Festival takes place when Japanese plum trees start bl...

In ancient times, people read their fortune through the stars. They read their luck of the coming ye...

Acala or Fudo Myo-o is a wrathful deity who leads people with difficulty in enlightening to follow t...

Kobo Daishi, the founder of the Shingon Sect, is said to have died on March 21, 835. Every 21st of t...

Every 18th day of the month is the day of a special relation with Kannon Bodhisattva. In the precinc...

Every 18th day of the month is the day of a special relation with Kannon Bodhisattva. Kannon Bodhisa...

Joya-no-kane at Ishiyamadera Temple starts from two o’clock in the morning when it is said that the ...

The head temple, Ishiyamadera Temple (Shingon sect), owns temple grounds on the foot of the Garanyam...

It is said that there are benefits for parents who are worried about parenting.

Monument to commemorate the ruins “Ishiyama shell mound” from the early Jōmon period in ...

It was built in 1999 in a garden that reminisces the accomplishments of the scholar priest Rocho who...

Built in the west of Daikoku Tendo, it is a gabled building with the embellishment facing the front....

In the first year of the Manju Era (1024), three monks dreamt of the revelation of the emerging Goho...

When Tōson Shimazaki was 20 years old, in the 26th year of the Meiji Era (1893), he stayed for about...

It is said that in the well in the south near the bottom of the main hall, water has been gushing ou...

When walking up the mountain way along Muyuen from Kannon’s carved stone monument’s plac...

Bronze statue of Murasaki Shikibu, whom is said to get inspiration for “The Tale of Genji̶...

This temple, which birthplace is in Ishiyama, has been contributed to in 2009 by Toray Industries, I...

As a part of Emperor Kazan’s Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage 1000 year revival commemoration event, ...

The tearoom right next to the single-storied house Tsukimi-tei is Bash_’s hermitage. It is sai...

Standing on the west side of the pagoda, this simple, rustic stone measures about 3.4 meters in heig...

Circular column with a height of 1.7 m, carved with the same contents as the “Basho Jiga Sangu...

It is standing right next to the scripture house, side by side with the haiku slab of Matsuo Basho, ...

A part of the sheaf of the scripture house that was built in a raised-floor style is standing direct...

When in front of the wollastonite, you can see eight-petal mountain cherry trees on the right side. ...

On the East side of this temple, South of the Bishamondo is the Kannondo, built facing West. At the ...

Sacred tree of Ishiyamadera. It is said that it is an Ipponsugi (Solitary Japanese Cedar) of the ear...

Around the center of the big slope (stone steps) is the Ryūzō Gongensha which is built facing the ea...

The small shrine “Nasuyoichi Jizō” under the big slope (stone stairs) that leads to the ...

It is a powerspot where your wish comes true if you go through under the hole.

It is said that Vairocana’s incarnation is the guardian deity of the Ishiyamadera temple and r...

Located on the left side of the Bishamondo temple in front of the important cultural proprety Meido,...

Multi-storied pagodas built to rise above wollastonite were donated to Minamoto no Yoritomo and we k...

This is a log storehouse that has been built in the 16th century, and it is the oldest log storehous...

It is a Shinto shrine within Ishiyamadera Temple dedicated to Emperor Tenji’s successive emper...

The two Hōkyōin pagodas standing side by side in the northwest of the multi-storied pagodas are said...

The bell tower built to face the scripture house on the east side of the main hall is thought to hav...

The Hiramyojinyogo-seki Stone past the Shinosho and located in front of the Myooin is regarded as th...

It is the main gate of Ishiyamadera temple, facing East along the Seta River. According to the templ...

The “Wollastonite” monument is exposed along the road at the quarry site just below the ...

Ryosen is from Omi Sakata and is the only Japanese monk who engaged in the translation of Buddhist s...

On the East side of this temple resides the Bishamondō Temple, built on the West face of the North s...

Wollastonite is made when limestone comes from out of the ground and gets in contact with granite, i...

The Hachidairyūōsha Shrine is located in a place that is further away from the Muyūen from the Tōdai...

It is said to have been built for Emperor Go-Shirakawa’s Imperal visits, and one can enjoy the...

The current Rennyo holy priest who is enshrined at the Renyō-dō, is an edifice that was built with k...

It is a hall that enshrines the founder of the Shingon sect Kōbō-Daishi and the portrait of third ge...

It is reported that the place where Murasaki Shikibu retired and started to write “The Genji Monogat...

This is the oldest wooden building of the Shiga Prefecture. Its main hall (inner temple) has been re...