ABSTRACT
Regent Tokiyori founded the great temple of Kencho¯ji for the teaching of Buddhism, but the temple soon could not accommodate all the many warriors who became students (nyu¯do¯) in order to enter the Buddhist path and give all their free time to it. So in the first year of Ko¯an (1278) Tokimune, Tokiyori’s son, decided to build another great temple, and invited priest Rankei (afterwards Daikaku) to choose the Brahma-ground, as the site for a temple is called. Teacher and regent walked together round the nearby hills, and found the ruins of a Shingon temple (of the mantra sect) where Minamoto Yoshiyori had once set up a pagoda of Perfect Realization. They decided on this as the place to plant the banner of the Law.
