立石寺奥の院
Inner Sanctuary of Risshakuji (Yamadera)
The Inner Sanctuary of Risshakuji, the temple better known as Yamadera. It stands at the end of the approach, 1,015 stone steps up from the main gate, and its formal name is Nyohodo. Its principal images, Shaka Nyorai and Taho Nyorai, are said to have been carried by the monk Ennin while he trained in Tang China.
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Risshakuji, in Yamagata City, Yamagata, is a temple of the Tendai school of Buddhism, affectionately known as Yamadera, "the mountain temple." It was founded in 860 by the monk Ennin (Jikaku Daishi). The Inner Sanctuary (Okunoin) stands at the end of the approach, at the top of 1,015 stone steps from the main gate.
The Inner Sanctuary's formal name is Nyohodo. Its principal images are Shaka Nyorai and Taho Nyorai, Buddhas that Ennin is said to have carried with him while training in China. This photo appears in Nihon Shashincho (Photo Album of Japan), published in 1912 (Meiji 45).
Yamadera is also known as the place the poet Matsuo Basho visited in 1689, where he wrote his haiku "Shizukasa ya iwa ni shimiiru semi no koe" (Such stillness: the cicadas' cry sinks into the rocks). The whole mountain is a mass of rock, and it was designated a national Place of Scenic Beauty in 1932.
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