Guhou-ji

In year, 737, a Buddhist monk called, Gouki built this temple to propagate Buddhism. Later, the great teacher, Kobo (founder of another Buddhist sect, Shingon religion in year, 774-835) erected a Buddhist monastery (an important structure among the Buddhist temples) and has changed its name to Guhou-ji. During the Edo period, this temple became a popular site for viewing autumn leaves in the surrounding that has attracted visitors who came for literary enjoyment. Notes, poems, seventeen-syllable poem, and pictures by people who have visited the temple ground have been recorded in the "Maple-tree Viewing at Mama" collection. However, in 1888 a fire disaster has burnt down many temples, and lost most of the maple trees in the surrounding. In 1890, reconstruction of some temples was completed, and in 1972, the main building of the temple ground was rebuilt to a ferroconcrete. In the vicinity of the temple, can be found stone tablets of famous Haiku poets, Mizuhara Syoushi and Tomiyasu Fusei, tombstone of Konodai artillery men, the old "weeping cherry tree" called, Fusehime zakura, and the stone stairway that is associated with the famous legend, "Mama no Namida" (The Tears of Mama).