Daifukukoji Temple

Daifukukoji enshrines Bishamonten as its principal image, which is why it is known locally as the Bishamon of Warabi. It is said to have been founded in the Enryaku era by Shaku Hoen, a monk from Kurama-dera in Kyoto, and after Ashikaga Takauji took it as his devotion it served as a prayer temple for the Ashikaga shoguns. Its great treasure is an ink-on-paper manuscript of the Hojoki, Kamo no Chomei's classic of medieval Japanese literature written in 1212 — one of the oldest surviving copies of that text, and correspondingly precious.