Daichoji (Temple)
    1, 2-chome, Nakano, Miyakojima-ku
[ Higashinoda ] by bus, about 100m to the north
 The temple used to be at the place of the present Fujita Art Museum, that was later purchased and occupied by a big merchant Fujita Denzaburo for his residence in the 45th year of Meiji.
 The gate of the temple was left as the front gate of the museum.
 The temple has a tomb of lovers, Koharu, Jihei, who were leading characters of the famous play "Shinju Ten-no Amijima" by the author Chikamatsu.
 They escaped secretly hand in hand from the Sonezakishinchi and passed through the towns along the Sonezaki river and crossed over bridges to reach Amijima and committed a double suicide.
 The tomb of them was moved to this place with the temple.
 

 

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