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A temple in Yamaguchi City, where in autumn the maples on both sides of the approach turn it into a crimson tunnel.
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Ryufuku-ji is a Soto sect temple in Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Its mountain name is Zuiunzan. The principal image is Shaka Nyorai. The temple is said to have begun as Zuiun-ji, founded at Shiraishi in Yamaguchi in the Kennei era (1206 – 1207) with Mitsumori Ouchi as founder. It first belonged to the Rinzai sect, but in Kyotoku 3 (1454) Norihiro Ouchi became founder, revived it with Sesshin as founding priest, and it was changed to the Soto sect. At this time it took its present mountain name and temple name.
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