Mar 27, 2013 - 1 min read

Kamakura’s Eisho-ji Temple

Flowers & bamboo at 380 years old nunnery

By Tomoko Kamishima

Community writer

The temple is full of green

Cherry blossoms

Spring has come!

Shaga (fringed iris)

Lush green bamboo

Kobushi magnolia

Temple’s name tablet

Path leading to a bamboo grove

This dignified gate testifies to the glory of the old days here

Rendition of the temple crest

The side of the old gate

The reception is to the right, just inside the gate

Eisho-ji Temple has been a nunnery since it was established in 1636. The founder of this temple was a woman who once was Tokugawa Ieyasu’s concubine, and also a descendant of a samurai who first built the Edo Castle. The temple’s name was derived from her name, Eisho-in. There are lots of flowers, trees, and a bamboo forest inside the temple grounds. The rendition of the temple crest at the gate is of a floral design - quite appropriate for a nunnery!

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