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[[Image:Daigyoji.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The main hall.]]
*''Established: [[Niccho|Nicchô]]''
*''Other Names'': 長慶山 ''(choukei-zan)'', 大行寺 ''(daigyou-ji)''
*''Japanese'': 大巧寺 ''(daigyou-ji)''
Daigyô-ji is a [[Nichiren Buddhism|Nichiren Buddhist]] temple in [[Kamakura]].
The temple's name was originally written with the characters 「大行寺」, but it is said that the name was changed to 「大巧寺」 after [[Minamoto no Yoritomo]] held a strategy meeting at the temple, and went on to win a victory in battle.
The chief deity worshipped at Daigyô-ji is Ubusume, goddess of childbirth. The head priest of the temple, Nittô, established Ubusume as such in [[1532]], in conjunction with a memorial service he organized for the wife of [[Akiyama Kageyu]], who had died in childbirth.
==References==
*Plaques on-site.
==External Links==
*[https://maps.google.com/maps?q=%E5%A4%A7%E5%B7%A7%E5%AF%BA&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=35.318261,139.552189&spn=0.001171,0.002642&sll=35.319225,139.546687&sspn=0.074935,0.169086&t=h&z=19 Daigyô-ji on Google Maps]
[[Category:Temples]]
[[Category:Kamakura Period]]
*''Established: [[Niccho|Nicchô]]''
*''Other Names'': 長慶山 ''(choukei-zan)'', 大行寺 ''(daigyou-ji)''
*''Japanese'': 大巧寺 ''(daigyou-ji)''
Daigyô-ji is a [[Nichiren Buddhism|Nichiren Buddhist]] temple in [[Kamakura]].
The temple's name was originally written with the characters 「大行寺」, but it is said that the name was changed to 「大巧寺」 after [[Minamoto no Yoritomo]] held a strategy meeting at the temple, and went on to win a victory in battle.
The chief deity worshipped at Daigyô-ji is Ubusume, goddess of childbirth. The head priest of the temple, Nittô, established Ubusume as such in [[1532]], in conjunction with a memorial service he organized for the wife of [[Akiyama Kageyu]], who had died in childbirth.
==References==
*Plaques on-site.
==External Links==
*[https://maps.google.com/maps?q=%E5%A4%A7%E5%B7%A7%E5%AF%BA&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=35.318261,139.552189&spn=0.001171,0.002642&sll=35.319225,139.546687&sspn=0.074935,0.169086&t=h&z=19 Daigyô-ji on Google Maps]
[[Category:Temples]]
[[Category:Kamakura Period]]
