49-2 Kokufu-cho-kanonji, Tokushima City
Access
About 20 min. walik from JR Tokushima Line Kou Stn.
Phone 088-642-2375

Founded in 741. Kukai later came, carved, and enshrined the main deity.
A pilgrim of the 19th Century bumt herself when she tried to dry her wet pilgrim hakui (coat) over a fire.
In the past, this woman had hit her mother-in-law and now repented of doing such.
There is a picture at this temple of tjis woman surrounded by flames.
Also at this temple is a righttime-crying (yonaki) Jizo which is said to cure children who cry at right.