No.24 Hostsumisaki-ji is located on a mountain climbing up from cape Muroto. There’re quite many tourists around cape Muroto, but here there’re almost no one.

Although the precincts of No.24 Hotsumisaki-ji is compact, there’re the main temple, the Taishi-do, a bell-tower, a sumo-wrestling ring and a two-storey pagoda, a small hall praying to cure eye diseases in it.

Kane-ishi is quite interesting. If you hit with a pebble, then it sounds like high-tone bell indeed. And it is said that this sound would reach to the underworld.

Usually I stayed around 30 minutes in one sacred temple to do all the routine but here it would take more time since there’re actually many things to look at.

Lightly roasted bonito (Katsuo-no-tataki) is definitely one of the most famous food in Kochi prefecture. It was really tasty with simple salt and Yuzu-su (local citrus vinegar).

It is said that Kobo-Daishi practiced Buddhist asceticism by reciting mantra (Noubou Akyasha Kyarabaya On Arikiya Maribori Sowaka) one million times here at Mikuro-do when he was 19 years old.

The white statue looking at the sea is Kobo-Daishi when he was young. He’s standing on Shikoku island, on which we can find the location of 88 sacred temples.

And underneath of the statue, you can see this Mandala… honestly it’s bit cheap-looking stuff for typical sight-seeing things…

Usually as the temple stamp, the name of the temple is written at the left side. However, here “the eastern temple (東寺)” is used. In Kochi prefecture, there’re two famous capes at the eastern edge (cape Muroto) and the western edge (cape Ashizuri), and there’s a sacred temple at each cape. One of them is No.24 Hotsumisaki-ji, and the other is No.38 Kongofuku-ji known as “the western temple (西寺)”