Gokoku-ji 護国寺
70 steps from the metro to the temple; the Gekkō-den, from Mii-dera in Ōtsu, reassembled in 1928
Founded in 1681 at the wish of Keishōin, mother of the fifth shōgun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, who entrusted to it a small amber Kannon as its sacred image. The current Kannon-dō, the main building, was rebuilt in 1697 after the first one burned, and is now a national Important Cultural Property (重要文化財), designated on 19 January 1931 together with the Gekkō-den, a Momoyama-period pavilion moved in 1928 from Mii-dera temple in Ōtsu (Shiga). The complex, with the Nio-mon, the Tahōtō and other historic buildings, is among the few in central Tokyo to have kept its original appearance through the 1923 earthquake and the 1945 bombings.
Tokyo
Gokokuji, Kishibojimmae, Zoshigaya
