Kōjaku-in (香積院) is a Buddhist temple in

Kawanayama-chō is a neighbourhood in Shōwa-ku, Nagoya, central Japan. Kawana used to be a village and was later incorporated in the 1930s. The Buddhist temple of Kōjaku-in is located there. Kawana ware used to be produced there during the late Edo period. ...

, Shōwa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi prefecture in central Japan. The temple is associated with the production of

Kawana ware refers to a type of Japanese porcelain produced in and around the area of Kawana (川名), today Kawanayama-chō (川名山町) in Shōwa-ku, Nagoya, central Japan. It is of the ''sometsuke'' (染付) blue and white pottery type, but notable f ...

during the

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional ''daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was character ...

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* http://www.tokaitenrei.co.jp/hall/koujakuin.html * http://www.osohshiki.jp/area/aichi/nagoya-shi/showa-ku/sougijou-28067.html * https://4travel.jp/travelogue/10323618 Buddhist temples in Nagoya Yagoto {{Japan-religious-struct-stub