Heisenji Hakusan Jinja

Heisenji Hakusan Shrine is a Shinto shrine within the metropolis of Katsuyama, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. In the previous Modern device of ranked Shinto Shrines, it changed into a prefectural shrine of Fukui Prefecture. Noted for its mossy gardens, the shrine gardens have been precise a countrywide Place of Scenic Beauty in 1930 and a National Historic Site of Japan in 1935. Its predominant competition is held annually on April 20. The region if a part of Hakusan National Park.

A Tendai sect Buddhist temple, Heisen-ji, became based in 717 AD by means of the Japanese Shugenda monk Taicho, who is said to have been the primary character to ascend the sacred mountain Hakusan 2,702m. It became a centre for mountain worship related to amalgamation of ideals, philosophies, doctrines and ritual structures drawn from neighborhood folk-religious practices, pre-Buddhist mountain worship, Shinto, Taoism and Vajrayana an ascetic practices related to hiking the mountain by means of diverse routes.

The temple turned into noted in the Heike monogatari, and become the web site of the 1183 Battle of Kurikara in the course of the Genpei War between Kiso Yoshinaka and the Taira clan. The temple changed into destroyed in 1338 by using the forces of Shiba Takatsune for its guide of the Southern Court of Emperor Go-Daigo during the Nanboku-cho duration and again in 1440. It became rebuilt with the help of the Muromachi shogunate, who levied a special tax at the seven provinces of the Hokuriku region for its reconstruction.