Torodo Temple, Koya-cho

　The approach to koyasan Okunoin, which lasts about 2km and has about 20,000 graves on both sides. 　If you cross the Mikoshi Bridge, it is a sanctuary and you are not allowed to take photos. From the bridge, the approach to which cedar trees grow on both sides stretched in a straight line, and there was a lantern hall ahead of it. It seems that this lantern hall was built as a shrine in the back, and the countless lanterns offered by worshippers were very mysterious.

And here we come to the Gobo-bashi bridge. Before stepping on it, it is necessary to clean up, pouring water on the statues of Jizo, Cannon and Fudo-myo-o to the right of the bridge. In Thoreau-do itself reigns twilight, slightly dispersed by the light of lit lanterns, which hung the entire ceiling of the building. Walls of lanterns divide the room into three parts. In the right and left parts there are altars dedicated to two of the kings of wisdom - Aizen Myo-o and Fudo Myo-o. In the center, where there would also be an altar image, there is nothing, only a window in the middle of the wall through which Gobyo is visible. Thus, on the altar of Thoro-do as if there is himself Kobo Daisi. In front of the window on the elevation are three special lanterns, which still burn oil, not electricity. The first was brought here by a priest named Joyo in 1016 in memory of his ...