Enshoji Temple

Important and Picturesque, but not open to the public

This is a privately owned temple which is only open on limited occasions to the public. You can ask around and try to find out when that is. Good luck. The temple is on the Yamanobe no Michi and is me...

You can see only three times a year on the bus tour of Nara Kotsu.

Original Text

A private nunnery that was set for Yukio Mishima's "Spring Snow" and was also written in Masako Shirasu's "Kakureri". The princesses serve as successive gate ruins, and it is also called Yamamura Goten. I went to the gate once 30 years ago. The approach to the uphill climbing that Kiyoaki Matsueda of "Spring Snow" suffered from high fever and cough, and wanted to see Satoko at a glance is exactly the image. I was very impressed, but I gave up going inside because it was private. However, this year Ne ...

A temple appearing in spring snow

Original Text

It is a temple that became a model of Tsukishuji Temple that appears in "Spring Snow", a part of the fertility sea, a legacy of Yukio Mishima. It is a temple that stands further away from the end of Kyoto, where Mr. Mishima himself visited when writing. The gate is usually closed and cannot be entered, but the road leading to the mountain gate is close to the play, reminiscent of the climax of the novel. I think it's a place worth visiting once.