Visit the House

Walk about 10 minutes along the Kiyotaki River from Shinjo-ji Temple, and stand at a point across the Shitsuki Bridge in Shōmei. In the Tianchong Year (824-833), the disciple Chiquan of Kukai was founded as a bentyin of Shingeji. It is said that the present-day Dou was rebuilt at the donation of the birth mother, Keisho-in, of the Tokugawa 5th Shogun Tsunayoshi. The main wooden statue of the Buddha Buddha (Important Cultural Property), which is enshrined in the main hall, is a "Seiryōji style", which is said to convey the figure of a Buddha in his lifetime, with a statue height of about 52cm and a work of Yukei. The statue of Senden Guanyin (Important Cultural Property), which is celebrated aside, is a work of the Fujiwara period.

The small diameter of a stunning bamboo forest about 400m long that leads from Nonomiya Shrine through the north side of Tenryū-ji to Okochi Sanso Garden. The lush bamboo is high enough to cover the sky, and on a sunny day you can walk comfortably in the sunshine from the bamboo forest. If the weather is bad, it is dark even in the daytime, but it is also quaint. Even at dusk, it's fantastic, as if you 've wandered into an other dimension. It is a representative of Kyo, and often appears in TV dramas.

渡月橋を見下ろす高台に立ち、「嵯峨の虚空蔵さん」と親しまれてきた。『枕草子』の「寺は」では「壺坂、笠置、法輪」と並び称せられ、院政期には多くの人々の信仰を集めて隆盛を誇った寺。現在は十三まいりで親しまれ、毎年4月13日、13歳になった子どもが法輪寺の虚空蔵菩薩に智恵と福徳を授かりに行く。思い思いの1字を墨で書いて奉納した後、渡月橋を渡って帰る時に、後ろを振り返るとせっかく授かった智恵を返してしまうという言い伝えがある。