紅葉/今高野山/広島県世羅郡/ Autumn leaves / Mount Koya / Sera District, Hiroshima Prefecture

紅葉/今高野山/広島県世羅郡/ Autumn leaves / Mount Koya / Sera District, Hiroshima Prefecture

撮影日：2025年11月23日


今回は広島県世羅郡にあります今高野山の昼間の紅葉の紹介です。
This time, we will introduce the autumn leaves at Imakoyasan in Sera County, Hiroshima Prefecture during the day.

　『今高野山縁起』によると，今高野山の寺院は，弘仁13（822）年に弘法大師空海が開いた真言密教の霊場とされ，令和４年（2022年）で，開基1200年を迎えます。
　紀州高野山が甲山の地に，西の別格本山・現地の拠点として「今高野山」を建立しました。「今」という字には，新しいという意味があります。

　今高野山は，龍華寺・金剛寺・丹生神社を中心に７堂１２院が建てられ繁栄しましたが，自然災害による天災や戦国時代の毛利・尼子の兵乱，そして江戸時代の大火などの人災により，今では総門（仁王門）・安楽院・福智院・龍華寺の本堂，観音堂，御影堂，護摩堂，十王堂・丹生神社・鐘楼だけになってしまいました。

　また，今高野山には観音堂（本堂）の本尊である「十一面観音立像」2躯（平安時代），丹生神社の「獅子頭」（鎌倉時代）等があり，国重要文化財に指定されるなど，数多くの文化財が残っています。
According to the Konkoyasan Engi, the temples of Konkoyasan are sacred sites of Shingon Buddhism that were founded by Kobo Daishi Kukai in 822, and will celebrate their 1,200th anniversary in 2022.
Kishu Koyasan established "Kon Koyasan" on Mount Kabuto as its western head temple and local base. The character "now" means new.
Mount Koya flourished with seven halls and 12 temples built around Ryuge-ji Temple, Kongo-ji Temple, and Nyu-jinja Shrine. However, due to natural disasters and man-made disasters such as the wars between the Mori and Amago clans during the Sengoku period and the great fires of the Edo period, all that remains today are the main gate (Nio-mon), Anraku-in Temple, Fukuchi-in Temple, the main hall of Ryuge-ji Temple, the Kannon Hall, the Miedo Hall, the Goma Hall, the Jyuo-do Hall, Nyu-jinja Shrine, and the bell tower.
In addition, Mount Koya today is home to many cultural assets, including two "Eleven-faced Kannon standing statues" (Heian period) that are the principal images of the Kannon Hall (main hall), and the "lion's head" (Kamakura period) at Nyu Shrine, all of which have been designated as Important Cultural Properties of Japan.