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Saihō-ji (Sendai)
Saihō-ji (西方寺) is a Buddhist temple built in 1706 belonging to the Jōdo-shū sect in Aoba-ku, Sendai, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. It is rarely called by its formal name by locals, and is more often called Jogi Nyorai or Jogi-san. History The temple's main treasure is a scroll depicting Amida Buddha, which is kept in the main temple. This scroll is called Jogi Nyorai. The temple is said to have been the location of a Taira clan fugitive, who is said to have been hiding out here after the Battle of Dan-no-ura, when Taira no Sadayoshi, a senior vassal of Taira no Shigemori, enshrined the Amida Nyorai scroll and prayed for the repose of the souls of Emperor Antoku and the Taira clan. Eight hundred years ago, the belongings of the young Emperor Antoku, who died with the Taira clan in Dannoura Bay in 1185, were buried under trees on the temple grounds. Over the decades, the trees merged and grew together to form a single tree, which today is one of the important landmar ...
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