Tenshōzan Renge-in Kōmyō-ji

Tenshōzan Renge-in Kōmyō-ji - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

is a Buddhist temple of the Jōdo sect in Zaimokuza, near Kamakura, Japan, the only major one in the city to be close to the sea. Kōmyō-ji is number one among the , a group of 18 Jōdo temples established during the Edo period by Tokugawa Ieyasu, and dedicated to both the training of priests and scholarly research. It is also the sect's head temple for the Kantō region. In spite of the fact it is a Jōdo sect temple, Kōmyō-ji has several of the typical features of a Zen temple, for example a sanmon (main gate), a pond and a karesansui (rock garden). Read more on Wikipedia

type: religious building
date from: 1924
official website: http://komyoji-kamakura.or.jp/

Source: en.wikipedia.org