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In the Nambokucho and Muromachi eras the driving force behind the Kumano Faith was, in fact, not Shugendo or even Shinto but a Buddhist sect known as Jishu. The Jishu sect was founded by High Priest Ippen (1239~1289) and, in the lineage of Pure Land doctrine, had the whole of Japan astir with enthusiasm for its new teachings from the mid-Kamakura to the Muromachi eras. The Jishu sect later went into decline and nowadays only the faintest of traces of it remain even in Kumano, one of which is the stone monument to High Priest Ippen in Hitari, Kumanogawa-cho, Shingu City, near to Banze Pass.
Kumano Kodo – Kogumotorigoe
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