Jokomyoji Temple

The temple was built in 1251 by Hojo Tokiyori, the fifth regent of the Kamakura shogunate, and Hojo Nagatoki, the sixth regent of the Kamakura shogunate, as a seminary for learning the tenets of the eight Buddhist sects in Japan combined.
It is a temple of the Sennyuji school of the Shingon sect of Buddhism, which was heavily patronized by the Ashikaga clan after the fall of the Kamakura shogunate.
In the repository, there are many nationally and prefecturally designated important cultural properties, including an image of the Amitabha Triad, which is decorated with “clay pattern decoration,” a unique decorative method in Kamakura where embroidered patterns are expressed in three dimensions by mixing clay and lacquer and die-cutting them, as well as a statue of Jizo Bodhisattva.
The regent was the highest-ranking position that assisted the shogun and controlled political affairs.