The fourth amulet-issuing office Mt. Makio Sefuku-ji temple

Mt. Makio Sefuku-ji temple is the Tendai sect temple of Buddhism which was opened in Nara period as a training hall for Shugendo (Japanese mountain asceticism-shamanism), where Kukai had ever stayed for a while. It is said that thousands of sub-temples had stood in a row during the peak period, however, badly destructed by Oda Nobunaga. Though restored in the Edo period, fire in the late Edo period made it lose the most of its edifice. There remains the ruin of the sub-temple as the stone-wall with moss in the mountain.

The main hall at the top of the mountain was reconstructed in the late Edo period. But the principal image was made during Keicho era (around 1600). In the main hall the principal image of the fourth amulet-issuing office, the statue of the thousand-armed Kannon and so many other Buddha statues have been enshrined.

Approaching path for Sefuku-ji temple