gokurakuzi(極楽寺)



When the Buddhist priest line basis erected a Buddhist monastery in a certain Gokurakuji in the vicinity of the mountaintop of Land of Happiness Terayama of meters above the sea level 693m so that a founder, the Emperor Shomu can devote themselves (731 years) in Tenbyo era 3, it is a venerable old historic temple told. It is appointed, and the main hall of a Buddhist temple revived for Eiroku era five years by (1560), Motonari Mouri is conveyed with the building keeping a light feature of the Chinese design-type Buddhist sanctum by prefecture important cultural property when a line basis product, のち, the propagating Buddhism Great Teacher understood 11 Senju Goddess of Mercy images of the principal idol. There is a throughout the prefecture's best huge Japanese evergreen oak with 20m in height, the same kind in front of the main hall of a Buddhist temple. I am beautiful, and, in a fragrant wood of high quality which was chosen as 100 selections of Japanese new fragrant woods of high quality, a personality of Furuki who weathered the hardship more than 300 years harmonizes with the dignity of the temple. The colored leaves are beautiful in a cherry tree, autumn, and the fair where is on the third Sunday in April is full of crowds every year many as a pastime that gives poetic charm in the spring in spring