Last Updated: Sep 24, 2023

Asama-dake Kongosho-ji

The So-Called “Shield of Ise Jingu”

9 min readSep 24, 2023

Asamadake Kongoshoji Temple is a Buddhist complex on Mt. Asama in Ise City Mie Prefecture that is said to be the shield of the Ise Jingu shrine collective.

It’s been a while since I featured a truly off of the beaten path location so this week, we are going to do just that. The topic of this piece will be the Buddhist temple complex of Kongosho-ji. As you can tell by the title, this sacred site is located near the summit of Mt. Asama, directly to…

Last Updated: Sep 24, 2023

Asama-dake Kongosho-ji

The So-Called “Shield of Ise Jingu”

Written by Donny Kimball