Myorakuji - Saku

Reprinted without permission The following text is from Matsumoto City's local publication (closed on February 29, 2016) This is a transcription from "Illustration: History of Saku" published on January 20, 1982. Myorakuji Temple, which became a fixed-price temple Eight years of Jōgan, which still belongs to the first half of the Heian period (866), Jakukoji Temple in Ina District, Kinshokuji Temple in Chikuma District, Anyo Temple in Sarashina District, Yashiro Temple in Sarashina District ・ Five temples of Myorakuji, Saku-gun were lined up from the imperial court to Jogakuji. As a government temple, the government provided 500-senzoku of government rice, and a certain number of monks (annual) were placed. In the first year of Tenpyo Shoho (749), the decree that restricted the ownership of the temples of various temples was up to 100 towns. It is said that it is possible to own a sword. Unlike Kokubunji, Jogakuji is a temple where influential private people such as aristocrats and powerful people The temples that were built were given a temple status, and there were many temples such as the imperial family and Mr. Fujiwara. At that time, it was rare for local lords to build temples, and in the Nara period. The fact that Otomo no Muraji Agaji Temple was built in the village of Ouna, Chiisagata District It is written in "Nihon Ryoiki" as a rare thing. It is important that a large temple was erected in Saku-gun in the early Heian period so that it could be lined up with a fixed-price temple. Who was the great family with such power and wealth? Where is the location of Myorakuji? Unfortunately they have not yet been revealed. The temple that conveys the name of Myorakuji is the name of the Shingon Shingon sect (Myorakuji) in Shimotsukabara, Saku City. However, it lost its old record in two fires, and the temple grounds and age when it was first built are unknown. Cloth tiles have been excavated from the vicinity of Nagatoro, Saku City, and there are several settlement traces from the Nara and planographic eras. It was excavated and investigated, and there is a temple site named Myorakuji in Otsuki, Uchiyama. There are high expectations for future research based on these.

A long-term care facility with a prominent green roof is built along the "former Nakasendo" that runs from Nakasato in Saku City to Shionada. I always passed by without worrying about it, but on this day I noticed that "Ishimon" was there. That means there must be a "temple". At the stone gate, there is "Mt. More than 20 cars are parked in the parking lot along the approach. Apparently, this "Myorakuji" runs the adjacent Long-Term Care Health Facility "Silverland Tsukabara". Cross the stream from the approach to the precincts. If you look at the place where the Kobo ambassador elephant is, is it "Shingon Buddhism"? A Jizo named "Sato of Mercy" is watching over the nursing care facility.