bonshaku-ji

Updated: May 23, 2025

As illustrating the religious faith of the age, it is noteworthy that Momokawa, by way of promoting Prince Yamabe's interests, caused a statue to be made in his likeness, and, enshrining it in the temple Bonshaku-ji, ordered the priests to offer supplications in its behalf. That kind of belief in the maleficent as well as in the beneficent powers of the dead became very prevalent in later times.

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