Kongōbu-ji

Kongōbu-ji (金剛峯寺) is a sacred Buddhist temple east of Koyasan Danjo Garan in Kii, Japan.^[1]

History

In 1582, the Kakushiba ikki members Fujibayashi Naoe and Yasuke tracked down one of the traitors Endo Tomoyasu, who took of betraying Oda Nobunaga at Honnō-ji, at the temple from samurai Hori Hidemasa. Just right of the temple, they actually found Hidemasa having killed Tomoyasu. Hidemasa explained that it was a matter of urgency before Naoe and Yasuke argued to leave quickly before anyone spotted them.^[2] At some point, they returned back to the temple, infiltrated its grounds, and recovered three lost pages scattered around its premise.^[3]