Hōkō-ji (方広寺) 方広寺（正式名: 深奥山方広萬寿禅寺）
Founded in 1371: 500 statues of the Buddha's disciples, each with a different face.
The Zen monk Mumon Gensen (無文元選, 1323–1390), back from China in 1350, founded the temple in 1371 at the invitation of the local lord Okuyama Rokurōjirō Tomofuji, who gave him 60 chō (about 60 hectares) of land and buildings. Mumon named it Hōkō-ji because the landscape reminded him of that of Fangguang Temple on Mount Tiantai in China, which he had visited as a young man; he died here in 1390, aged 68. The great fire of 1881 destroyed most of the complex, which was rebuilt in the following years; the founder's tomb, the hall of the seven bodhisattvas and the original statue of the founder survived the fire, together with the hall of the guardian Hansōbō, hence the spread throughout Japan of the cult of this protective figure linked to the temple. The five hundred rakan statues came from a vow by the monk Setsugan, inspired by an episode from Mumon's life in China, and were completed in 1770 with donations from many worshippers; today the temple adds new ones with new donations.
Shizuoka
奥山, 奥山小学校前, 奥山東
