Purification
Places associated with purification.
Purification is the practice of washing away what should not be carried further, from rinsing hands at the basin to standing under a waterfall. The places tagged here have that practice near the centre of what they offer, and each page describes it as the institution states it.
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TempleTakaosan Yakuo-in
- Protection & Safety
- Purification
A mountain temple founded in 744 on Mount Takao, west of Tokyo, whose principal image is Izuna Daigongen and whose tengu are held to ward off calamity, still an active centre of Shugendo mountain asceticism.
TempleFukagawa Fudo-do
- Protection & Safety
- Purification
The Tokyo branch of Naritasan Shinshoji, in Monzen-nakacho, where a goma fire rite is performed before Fudo Myoo several times a day.
TempleMeguro Fudoson (Ryusen-ji)
- Protection & Safety
- Purification
The oldest Fudo site in the Kanto, founded in 808 after a fifteen-year-old monk dreamed of a blue-black figure with a sword and a rope, and one of the Five-Colour Fudo that guarded Edo.