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東光寺, Buddhist temple in Ogura, Yamagata, Gifu Prefecture, Japan

Tōkō-ji is a Rinzai-shū Myōshin-ji branch temple in Ogura, Yamagata, Gifu Prefecture, with the mountain name Fujisan and Shō Kannon Bosatsu as its principal image. Its main hall (hondō) is a Yamagata City-designated cultural property, and the temple grounds are a city-designated scenic spot. It is the 9th stop on the Mino Thirty-three Kannon pilgrimage and the 64th on the Mino Shikoku pilgrimage.

Tōkō-ji was founded in the Meiō era (1492–1501) of the Muromachi period by Kion, with Kaō Raisun as founder and Tōyō Eichō invited as founding abbot. It belongs to the Rinzai-shū Myōshin-ji school, bears the mountain name Fujisan, and is the 9th stop on the Mino Thirty-three Kannon pilgrimage and the 64th on the Mino Shikoku route.

Tōkō-ji is the ninth stop on the Mino Thirty-three Kannon pilgrimage and the sixty-fourth on the Mino Shikoku route, so visitors may see pilgrims in white robes with staffs and stamp books. The main image is a statue of Shō Kannon Bosatsu. The temple belongs to the Myōshin-ji branch of the Rinzai school of Zen.

Tōkō-ji stands in Ogura, Yamagata, Gifu Prefecture, and is the ninth stop on the Mino Thirty-three Kannon pilgrimage and the 64th on the Mino Shikoku route. Visitors following either circuit stop here to pay respects at the main hall, which the city has designated a cultural property.

The temple's honzon is a Shō Kannon Bosatsu, and the grounds are registered as a Place of Scenic Beauty by Yamagata city. The main hall and a seated Kannon statue attributed to the monk Enkū are also city-designated cultural properties, so the temple holds three separate municipal designations.

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