"Doryo-san" is an ancient temple of the Soto sect with more than 4,000 sects nationwide

#aprilblooms An ancient temple of the Soto sect on the slopes of Mt. Myojinga on Mt. Hakone Outer Ring. It was opened in the first year of Oei (1394) in the middle of the Muromachi period and has a history of about 600 years. It is a Soto sect temple with the second only to Eihei-ji Temple in Fukui Prefecture and Soji-ji Temple in Tsurumi, Yokohama City, and has more than 4,000 sects throughout the country. The founder is Ryoan Emyo Zenji, and the principal image is Shakyamuni Buddha. The temple is also known locally as "Doryo-san", but there is a legend that the monk Doyo, a disciple of Ryoan Keimei Zen Master, devoted himself to the construction of the temple, and after Ryoan Emei Zenji's death, he became a tengu and flew away, and since then it has been enshrined as the guardian deity of the temple. From. In this regard, huge iron clogs weighing 3.8 tons are dedicated to the precincts, large and small iron clogs, and Tengu fans.