Ishiyama-dera

Ishiyama-dera is a Shingon sanctuary in Otsu in Japan's Shiga Prefecture. This sanctuary is the 13th of the Kansai Kannon Pilgrimage. It was built around 747 CE, and is said to have been established by Roben. The sanctuary contains various social resources. The sanctuary has two parts of compositions of the Records of the Grand Historian, the first of China's 24 dynastic chronicles, which are the main known surviving sections that pre-date the Tang administration 618– 907.

As indicated by writing accessible at the sanctuary complex, the watchman carvings at Sanmon/Todaimon are by Tankei and Unkei. Purportedly, Murasaki Shikibu started composing The Tale of Genji at Ishiyama-dera amid a full moon night in August 1004. In celebration, the sanctuary keeps up a Genji room including a real existence measure figure of Lady Murasaki and presentations a statue in her honor. The sanctuary includes as "The Autumn Moon at Ishiyama" in the Eight Views of Omi topical arrangement in workmanship and writing; precedents incorporate ukiyo-e prints by Harunobu in the 18th century and Hiroshige in the 19th century.