Nagodera

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Nagodera 那古寺
Fudarasan Nagoji 補陀洛山 那古寺 Fudara San Nago-Ji

located in the city of Tateyama in southern Chiba Prefecture, Japan.
The temple is also called "Nago-ji" using the alternate pronunciation of the final Chinese character in its name, or the "Nago Kannon" (那古観音), after its primary object of worship.

Nago-dera is located on the middle slopes of Mount Nago at the southern tip of the Bōsō Peninsula, and is surrounded by forest. The area around the temple has important stands of sudajii Castanopsis, the tabunoki machilus species of laurel, the yabunikkei species of cinnamomum, camellia and the himeyuzuri species of daphniphyllum.

History
According to temple legend contained in the Nago-dera engi text, Nago-dera was founded by the wandering holy ascetic Gyōki around 717 AD to pray for the recovery of Empress Genshō from an illness. However, no historical documents have survived to substantiate this legend, and the history of the temple is thus uncertain. Most of the temple was destroyed by a fire in 1703, and its oldest existing structures are its Hondō (本堂) main hall (1759) and Tahōtō (多宝塔) pagoda (1761), both of which are registered as Chiba Prefectural Important Cultural Properties.



Nago-dera was used as a place of worship by successive samurai and clans, starting with Minamoto Yoritomo (1147 – 1199), Ashikaga Takauji (1305 - 1358), Yoshizane Satomi (1412 – 1488) and members of the Tokugawa clan.

The temple currently belongs to the Shingon Chizan Sect of Japanese Buddhism. Its Gohonzon (primary object of veneration) is a bronze statue of Senju Kannon Bosatsu (千手観世音菩薩, Senju Kanseion Bosatsu),which dates from the Kamakura period. This statue is a national Important Cultural Property.
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This temple is Nr. 33 on the pilgrimage to 33 Kannon temples in the Kanto region.
坂東三十三観音霊場33番


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source : karopapa.cocolog-nifty.com


. Kannon Bosatsu 観音菩薩 .



眼前に春潮溢る那古観音
ganzen ni shunchoo afuru Nago Kannon

in front of my eyes
the spring tide is full -
Nago Kannon

Ishii Tooin 石井桐陰 Ishii Toin
Haiku poet of the Taisho and Meiji period.


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omamori お供物とお守り amulets and offerings

Look at more photos from the temple and spring festival
source : yoshi883t


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. Masaoka Shiki 正岡子規 visiting shrines and temples .

那古寺の椽の下より秋の海
Nagodera no en no shita yori aki no umi

below the veranda
of temple Nagodera
the sea in autumn



source :　4travel.jp/domestic


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補陀洛山那古寺の飛花は海へかな
Fudarasan Nagoji no hika wa umi e kana

from Fudara san
temple Nagoji the blossoms flutter
down to the sea . . .

Kawasaki Akiho 川崎晃帆



source :　landscape-photo.seesaa.net



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