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It is a temple of the Buzan school of Shingon sect, and is called Hatakatsuyama Jojuin Entenji. It is said that the village was called Rokugatsu-mura and the temple was called Enten-ji because it was during the blazing heat in June of the lunar calendar when Minamoto no Yoshiie, also known as Hachiman Taro, passed through this area to subdue Oshu. The principal image is the sitting statue of Amida Nyorai, with Kannon Bosatsu and Seishi-Bosatsu on both sides. In addition, the statue of Yakushi Nyorai and the statue of Fudo Myoo are enshrined. The temple is famous for Haiku, because the stone monument inscribed with a famous haiku in the collection of Issa, which was issued around 1816, was built in the precincts. Every year on November 23, which is close to Issa's death (November 19), the Issa Festival, featuring a frog sumo bout, is held. In June, we invite famous haiku poets to hold the Aoba Festival Memorial Haiku Tournament. Hachiman-jinja Shrine near the temple is a village shrine of Rokugatsu village, and Enten-ji also served as the head of this shrine in the Edo period. |
