A pamphlet from Jakkōin Temple (寂光院) up in the Ōhara area of Kyoto, according to temple lore founded in 594 by Shōtoku Taishi (聖徳太子) for the postmortem well-being of his father, Emperor Yōmei (用明天皇), though probably more famous as the sanctuary of Taira no Kiyomori’s (平清盛) daughter Kenreimon’in (建礼門院) after the fall of the Taira clan in 1185
Acquired at the temple September 16, 1995












