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Mount Nokogiri (鋸山
Nokogiriyama, lit. "sawtooth mountain") is located in the Bōsō Hills in southern Chiba Prefecture and faces the Uraga Channel, the waterway connecting Tokyo Bay and the Gulf of Sagami. Composed of sandy tuff, Mount Nokogiri's distinctive features are its sawtooth-shaped ridges created by the extraction of building stone during the Edo period. The cliff-like western side of the hill is the location of Nihon-ji (日本寺
Nihonji) temple, officially called
Kenkon-zan Nihon-ji (乾坤山日本寺), founded in 725 by the priest Gyōki (668–749) at the behest of Emperor Shōmu. In
Kantō, Nihon-ji is the only temple from the
Nara Period that was built by imperial decree (known as 勅願所
chokugansho). The emperor endowed the temple with 18 tons of gold, an imperial tablet written by the emperor himself as well...