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高知県 · Shrines & temples

Tosa Jinja

高知市中央

Seen from above, the halls form a dragonfly, an unusual layout called iri-tonbo-zukuri. Chosokabe Motochika rebuilt it.

高知県 · Shrines & temples

Chikurinji

高知市中央

It has a five-storey pagoda and a garden designated a Place of Scenic Beauty. It is also known as the temple of Junshin, the monk of Harimayabashi in …

高知県 · Shrines & temples

Hotsumisakiji

室戸市東部

Said to be where Kukai practised and took the name Kukai. The Mikurodo cave at Cape Muroto is held to be that place of practice. Kochi is the road of …

高知県 · Shrines & temples

Kongofukuji

土佐清水市西部

It stands at the very tip of Cape Ashizuri. About 80 kilometres from the previous temple, it ends the longest stretch on the whole circuit.

高知県 · Shrines & temples

Wakamiya Hachimangu

高知市中央

Where Chosokabe Motochika prayed for victory in his first battle. A bronze statue of him stands in the grounds.

高知県 · Shrines & temples

Chikurinji Gojunoto

高知市中央

It stands on Mount Godai. The setting for Junshin, the monk of the Yosakoi song.

高知県 · Shrines & temples

Chikurinji Teien

高知市中央

A pond garden attributed to Muso Soseki.

高知県 · Shrines & temples

Mikurodo

室戸市東部

Where Kukai practised. Seeing only the sky and the sea from the cave mouth, he is said to have taken the name Kukai, sky and sea.

高知県 · Shrines & temples

Shinshoji

室戸市東部

It carries a legend that its Kajitori Jizo, the helmsman Jizo, saved a ship.

高知県 · Shrines & temples

Kongochoji

室戸市東部

Called the West Temple. It carries the memory of whaling.

高知県 · Shrines & temples

Ashizuri Misaki

土佐清水市西部

A cape from which monks set sail, believing the Pure Land lay beyond the southern sea.

高知県 · Shrines & temples

Ichijo Jinja

四万十市西部

The shrine of the little Kyoto of Tosa, founded by the Ichijo family after they fled the Onin War.

高知県 · Shrines & temples

Zenjibuji

南国市中央

It looks down on Tosa Bay. Sailors called it the Kannon of the ship's spirit.

高知県 · Shrines & temples

Tosa Kokubunji

南国市中央

Ki no Tsurayuki came here. Known for its garden of hair-cap moss.

高知県 · Shrines & temples

Zenrakuji

高知市中央

It was the administrative temple of Tosa Jinja.

高知県 · Shrines & temples

Sekkeiji

高知市中央

The funerary temple of Chosokabe Motochika. It holds sculpture by Tankei, son of Unkei.

高知県 · Shrines & temples

Tanemaji

春野町中央

Ladles with the bottoms knocked out are offered here in prayer for safe childbirth.

高知県 · Shrines & temples

Kiyotakiji

土佐市中央

You can walk through the inside of the Yakuyoke Daishi figure.

高知県 · Shrines & temples

Shoryuji (Kochi)

土佐市中央

The source of the ring name of the yokozuna Asashoryu. He trained his legs on the 170 stone steps.

高知県 · Shrines & temples

Iwamotoji

四万十町西部

Five hundred and seventy-five paintings cover the ceiling of the main hall, from Buddhist images to Marilyn Monroe.

高知県 · Shrines & temples

Enkoji

宿毛市西部

Its bronze bell, said to have been carried here on the back of a red turtle, is an Important Cultural Property.

高知県 · Shrines & temples

Konomineji

安田町東部

You climb a slope so steep it is called the sheer vertical. The mother of Iwasaki Yataro of Mitsubishi came here daily.

高知県 · Shrines & temples

Dainichiji (Kochi)

香南市中央

A great camphor here is said to cure ailments from the neck up.

高知県 · Shrines & temples

Kujirazuka

室戸市東部

A mound to hold memorials for the whales that were taken. An awareness of receiving a life, given form.