{"id":94,"date":"2025-03-25T16:30:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T07:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/?p=94"},"modified":"2025-03-25T16:30:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T07:30:45","slug":"kongoji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/info\/kongoji\/","title":{"rendered":"Kong\u014dji Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-95\" src=\"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/kongoji.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/kongoji.jpg 900w, https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/kongoji-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/kongoji-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This modest temple in the K\u014dnotani area of Kawakami commemorates a dramatic event in the fifteenth century. Kong\u014dji\u2019s current main hall dates to 1716, and its adjoining shrine is dedicated to a young emperor named Jitenn\u014d (1440\u20131457) and his younger brother Tadayoshi\u014d (d. 1457), the last princes of Southern Court lineage. After the brothers\u2019 murder at the hands of assassins, the townspeople of Kawakami established the shrine in their memory.<\/p>\n<p>Beside the main hall is a small repository that contains Jitenn\u014d\u2019s clothing, sword, and armor. The Southern Court was based in Yoshino, and these articles were brought back to Kawakami by members of the village after the princes\u2019 deaths. The doors to the repository are opened and residents pay their respects during the yearly Och\u014dhai Ceremony, held on February 5.<\/p>\n<p>The first temple on this site is said to have been built by En no Gy\u014dja (634\u2013c. 701), a mystic who founded the practice of mountain asceticism called Shugend\u014d. The temple\u2019s principal image, which is shown to the public annually on August 23, is a carved yew statue of the bodhisattva Jiz\u014d, the protector of children and savior of spirits trapped in hell. The image was supposedly carved by En no Gy\u014dja.<\/p>\n<p>To the left of the main hall stands an immense zelkova tree said to be over 800 years old. Its center is hollow, but the tree continues growing strong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This modest temple in the K\u014dnotani area of Kawakami commemorates a dramatic event in the fifteenth century. Ko [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}