Gokuraku-ji (極楽寺) is a Buddhist temple of the Shingon sect located in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It was founded in 1259 by Ninshō (1217-1303)...

loyalist, attacked Kamakura to reestablish imperial rule. After trying to enter by land through the Kewaizaka Pass and the Gokuraku-ji Pass, he and his...

the western passes near Gokuraku-ji, which was guarded with rows upon rows of wooden shielding. Nitta realized the Gokuraku-ji could be bypassed by marching...

of Gokuraku-ji, had it flattened and opened this road. The so-called Gokuraku-ji Pass is this road. When in 1333 Nitta Yoshisada attacked Kamakura, the...

Kenchō-ji school, in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Jōmyō-ji is Number Five of the five temples known as Kamakura Gozan ("Kamakura's Five Mountains")...

Station on the Kintetsu Minami-Osaka Line Shitennō-ji pagoda Kondō The Great West Gate (Gokuraku-mon) The Great East Gate The Great South Gate (Nandai-mon)...

815 Gokuraku-ji (Kamakura), founded in Kamakura in 1259 Gokuraku-ji (Kitakami) in Kitakami, Iwate Prefecture Gokuraku-ji, later renamed Jōmyō-ji, founded...

smaller temple appeared in the Kamakura and Muromachi periods on its ruins, of which the present temple of Gokuraku-ji laid claim to the temple's original...

main image is a statue of Amida Nyōrai. The temple was originally named Gokuraku-ji (極楽寺) and appears in historical records only from 1265, although its...

Kamakura, Home of the Samurai (武家の古都・鎌倉, Buke no koto・Kamakura) is a grouping of historic sites concentrated in and around the Japanese city of Kamakura...