Giō-ji Temple is a Shingon sect Daikaku-ji branch temple (nunnery) located in Saga, Ukyo-ku, Kyoto City.
It is a thatched-roof hut that appears in “The Tale of the Heike.” It is said that Giō, who lost the favor of Taira no Kiyomori, became a nun with her sister and mother and spent the rest of her life there.
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