Next to Omiwa-yashiro (Hamanomiya Oji), this temple was formerly dedicated to Kumano Gongen, and is known as the place where Fudarakutokai priests shipped out to the sea.

Fudarakutokai is the faith of suicidal shipping out to the southern sea in search of Fudaraku Pure Land. Fudarakutokai were conducted twenty times between 9th Century and 18th Century.

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