nanen-do

Updated: June 20, 2025

Go-Sanjo strictly interdicted all such transactions. But this action brought him into sharp collision with the then kwampaku, Fujiwara Norimichi. The latter built within the enclosure of Kofuku-ji at Nara an octagonal edifice containing two colossal images of Kwannon. On this nanen-do the regent spent a large sum, part of which was contributed by the governor of the province.

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