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Kongō Sammai-in
Kongō Sammai-in
Kongō Sammai-in
Located a short walk to the north above Mt. Kōya’s main road is Kongō Sammai-in Temple, which features Mt. Kōya’s oldest surviving building, a pagoda built in the year 1223.
The pagoda is a tahōtō (pagoda of myriad treasures) and, as Japan’s second oldest surviving building of this type, an excellent example of Kamakura-period architecture. It is listed as a National treasure by the Japanese government.
The fifteen-meter-tall tower enshrines statues of the Five Wisdom Tathāgatas (Gochi Nyorai). If the traditional attribution of these statues to Unkei is correct, they would be among the last works of this master sculptor.
The temple itself was established at the behest of Hōjō Masako (1156 –1225) for the salvation of her husband Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147 -1199) and her son Sanetomo (1192 -1219), who had died at the age of 26. As the wife of the first and mother of the second and third shoguns of the Kamakura Era (1185 -1333), Masako was one of the most powerful women in Japanese history and is known at the "Nun Shogun.
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