gwangyo-ji

Updated: June 22, 2025

Kwazan, distraught with grief, was approached by Kaneiye's son, Michikane, who urged him to retire from the world and seek in Buddhism the perfect peace thus alone attainable. Michikane declared his own intention of entering the "path," and on a moonlight night the two men, leaving the palace, repaired to the temple Gwangyo-ji to take the tonsure.

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