enmyoji

sugazan

第53番

須賀山

The Shikoku　holy
place of No.５３

Principal image
　Amidanyorai

Location
　Ehime Matuyama city
Wake town 1-182

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A photograph, edit, and work
　　　　Hidetsuna Watanabe
English translation
　　　　Noriko Matsudaira

　The Enmeiji Temple stands in the street of about 3km east from Taisanji Temple.
　If you entered the temple gate along the way, the precincts of the temple spread out.
　The Gyuki-bosatu opened this temple by Emperor Shomu's command in 749.
　The Gyuki-bosatu built the temple on the seashore in Wake, carved the Amidanyorai,
and took as the principal image. And it is said that the Kaiganzan Enmeimituji Temple
was named. Kobo Daishi visited behind, the temple was improved and it was considered
as the amulet-issuing office.
　However, the large temple remained in disrepaired by subsequent war. It became around
1615, and the powerful clan, Suga Shigehisa of Wake moved the principal image to the
present ground, and rebuilt the temple. It becomes the Matuzi in Ninna-ji Temple in
Kyoto behind, and it is said that the name of the Suga mountain was named.
　The monument considered to be the Mary image is beside the Daishido. It seems that
this temple had tolerated the hidden believer's worship in spite of having forbidden
Christianity at the Edo period.

main temple

precincts of the temple

temple gate

tile

near the temple

sculpture