Ishite-ji Okunooin
📍 Ehime, Ishite · Matsuyama
📿 Goshuin Info
Hours
8:00–17:00
Fee
—
Direct-write
Available
Pre-written
Available
About
MountainKitayama
SectRinzai-shu Shokoku-ji school
PrincipalKannon Bosatsu
Founded1397
FounderAshikaga Yoshimitsu
HeritageUNESCO World Heritage
Website www.shokoku-ji.jp/kinkakuji/
History
Ishite-ji Okunooin is a sacred site situated deeper within Ishite-ji. Located beyond the mountain path from the Main Hall, this holy place has long been revered as a location for deeper practice and prayer. The serene, mountain-surrounded environment is ideal for purifying the heart and cleansing the soul. Within the solemn atmosphere unique to the Okunooin, visitors come to offer particularly earnest wishes and important prayers. It has been believed that one receives more mystical and remarkably efficacious divine blessings here, distinct from those of the main temple.
Benefits
fulfillment of wishesrecovery from illnesswarding off calamitiespurification of body and mindveneration of ancestorsgood fortune and blessings