Shori-ji Temple

A temple of hydrangea and cherry blossoms

Original Text

It is an unmanned temple managed by the chief priest of Seisonji Temple, but it is an old temple with a long history surrounded by weeping cherry blossom trees and hydrangeas. The Niomon is covered with straw shoes. The stone steps become a fairly steep slope.

Straw and steep stairs

Original Text

It is on the way back from Jisonin to town. There were many straw shoes and boxing gloves on the Niomon Gate. Is straw shoes a wish that your legs and waist can move forever? The stairs to climb from the front were steep, so I climbed from the loose stairs on the side.

A temple that is also beneficial to the game

Original Text

Located in the back of Jisonin, it is a temple built by Kobo Daishi in 815, and is known for the fact that Daishi dedicated "Eleven-faced Kannon" in the year of 42 years old. The stone steps leading from the parking lot became steep as I climbed, so I went up with care, but there is a detour on the left side, so I think it is better to use this on rainy days. There is a magnificent vermilion Niomon gate up the stone steps, but Dou, such as the main hall and Daishido, was painted vermilion like a shrine. Honzon ...

"Shokoji" where straw shoes are dedicated to Niomon

Original Text

Near Jisonin, I was a little worried about how far I would go on a narrow climbing road, but there is a parking lot. When you climb the steep stone steps, you will find a magnificent Niomon gate, and many straw shoes were dedicated like the entrance to Mt. Koya Omotesando. When Kobo Daishi was 42 years old, the principal image is "Eleven-faced Kannon", which is said to have been enshrined to ward off evil.

Waraji at the Niomon gate

Original Text

There is a magnificent Niomon gate. It is designated as a cultural property of Kudoyama Town. For some reason, many walladdies are attached to the gate, but there seems to be no walladdies selling in the precincts, so I wondered why it was walladdies in the Niomon Gate.