Ishiyamadera Temple

石山寺(いしやまでら)境内の本堂正面から撮影したもの｡平安時代後期には貴族の女性らに信仰され､後には西国三十三所観音霊場の第13番札所として庶民の信仰をあつめた｡瓦葺の建物(蓮如堂)の奥にみえるのが本堂で､承暦2年(1096)に焼失した後､再建された｡The precincts of Ishiyamadera Temple seen from the front of the Main Hall . During the Heian Period, aristocratic women worshipped at the temple, and in later years it attracted many commoners as the 13th temple in the circuit of the 33 Holy Kannon temple of Western Japan. The Main Hall, just behind the tile-roofed Rennyodo, burned to the ground in 1096 and was later rebuilt