Virtual Miura 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #4 Daichin-ji Temple

      Daichin-ji Temple was built at the site of the Camellia Villa of Minamoto Yoritomo (1147-1199), the founder and the first shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate.

     Yoritomo had a concubine named Taeko.  As the lawful wife of Yoritomo, Hojo Masako (1157-1225), was so jealous that Yoritomo sheltered Taeko in the Camellia Villa.  After Yoritomo’s death, she made the villa a temple, Daichin-ji, namely Big Camellia Temple. We can find the grave of hers near the temple even today.

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