dai-dembo-in

Updated: June 28, 2025

It has already been stated that the priests of Kii had their headquarters at Negoro, where there stood the great monastery of Dai-Dembo-In, belonging to the Shingon sect and enjoying almost the repute of Koya-san. Scarcely less important was the monastery of Sawaga in the same province.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era