High priest Shodo Shonin opened Nikko to the public
In the late Nara period (710 - 794), the high priest Shodo Shonin climbed into the uncivilized mountains of Nikko and established a center for Buddhist culture there. He then built Shihonryu-ji Temple at Mt. Nantai-san. This phenomenon led to the establishment of a second Buddhist cultural center at Mt. Nyoho-san. Since then, the Nikko Sangaku Shinko religion (mountain worship) began to develop among the two centers.
In the Kamakura period (1185-1333), the third cultural center was established at Mt. Taro-san. In 1617, the first shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu was enshrined in the mountains of Nikko, and the Buddhist culture in Nikko became prosperous under the patronage of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
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