(12) Enmyoji Temple and Dutiful Dog
Seseragi Walking route / (C) Mishima-Hirokoji Station Area
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Enmyoji Temple
The Enmyoji temple was founded by Niccho Shonin in 1479 as a temple for the Nichiren sect of Buddhism.
The original mountain gate burned down in a big fire that spread in 1878, and it was replaced with the main gate from the Honjin* of Tokaido Mishima-shuku that was the eleventh of the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido Road during Edo period Japan.
Tsukiya-no-Michi Path
The “Tsukiya-no-Michi Path” was named after water mill cabins called “Tsukiya” in Japanese.
Numerous watermill cabins were built around there to polish rice utilizing the river flow from the abundant spring water in Mishima City.
Old Kamakura Road
The “Kamakura Kodo” is a road that was developed to connect Kyoto and Kamakura when "Minamoto no Yoritomo" started Japan’s first Shogunate regime in Kamakura (Kamakura Shogunate), and it became the essential road for east-west traffic.
Goten River
It is said that the Goten River was given its name because this river flows to the east side of a palatial home where Iemitsu, the third Shogun of the Edo period, stayed when on the way to Kyoto.
The ruins of "Toiyaba (Administration office in Edo period)"
Mishima town flourished as the 11th post town on the “Tokaido road” that was the most important of the Five Routes of the Edo period in Japan, connecting Kyoto to Edo (Tokyo).
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