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Jakkō-in Temple

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Open today at 9:00-17:00
Recommended sightseeing time:2 hour
Address:
Japan, 〒601-1248 Kyoto, Sakyo Ward, Ōharakusaochō, 676−676Map
Phone+81 75-744-3341
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[Kyoto Ohara Jiguangyuan] This is a sad monastery, as the name suggests. Jiguangyuan was built by the prince of St. De in 594 AD. In the 12th century, the daughter of the Ping family married into the royal family and became the noble queen of the emperor of Takakura. However, in the first year of Wenzhi, Ping's family was destroyed in the two wars between Ping's and Yuan's clans. She took her 2-year-old son, Emperor Ande, to jump to the sea. She was rescued after her son died. Finally in the Jiguangyuan seclusion, lonely misery for the rest of life. Then the Jiguangyuan is quite famous as a nun. All the buildings depicted in the Japanese famous book "Pingjia Wuyu" can be seen here almost the prototype, and the temple, academy, and the wealth paradise can be used as reference one by one. It is really hard to imagine how the historical figures of Pingjiawu in such a quiet Japanese courtyard have experienced a turbulent historical fate.

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