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A temple in Matsue, mortuary temple of the Matsudaira lords, with the graves of the first nine.
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A temple in Matsue, mortuary temple of the Matsudaira lords, with the graves of the first nine.
About this place
Gesshō-ji (月照寺) is a Jōdō-shū Buddhist temple in the Tono Nakahara-cho neighborhood of the city of Matsue, Shimane Prefecture Japan. It is the bodaiji of the Matsudaira clan, the daimyō of Matsue Domain during the Edo period. The daimyō cemetery containing the graves of nine generations of the rulers of Matsue was designated as a National Historic Site in 1996.
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