Choraku-ji Temple is located in Maruyama-cho, east of Gion Yasaka Shrine in Kyoto’s Higashiyama Ward.
It is a Tendai sect temple founded in 805—following the relocation of the capital to Heian-kyo—by Saicho under the imperial decree of Emperor Kanmu; it was later converted to the Ji sect.
Kenreimon-in, a daughter of Taira no Kiyomori, is said to have taken Buddhist vows at this temple.
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