Kanei-ji

Kanei-ji

Also known as Kaneiji Temple

Year

1625

Type

building

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Kanei-ji was founded in 1625 by the monk Tenkai as the great Tendai temple guarding the northeast, the traditionally unlucky direction, of the shogun's new capital, a role modeled on Enryaku-ji above Kyoto. Backed by the Tokugawa, it grew i …

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