Fusai-ji Temple

What it is

• A Soto Zen temple located in Fukaya City, Saitama Prefecture.
• Founded during the late Heian period by Okabe Tadazumi.
• Dedicated to the head of the local Okabe clan who killed Taira no Tadanori.

What to see

• The Okabe family graves located two hundred meters north of the temple.
• A large Kaya tree designated as a city natural monument since 1979.
• The gravestone of Okabe Rokuyata Tadazumi, a Saitama Prefectural Historic Site.
• Marks on the warrior's gravestone where visitors historically scraped off powder.

Getting there

• The temple is a twenty-minute walk from Okabe Station.

Notes written by Japan Gems from facts in Japanese Wikipedia.