Jakkô-in is a monastery steeped in history in Ôhara, a small village northeast of Kyôto City. Empress Taira no Tokuko (1155-1214), wife of Emperor Takakura and mother of the drowned child emperor Antoku (1178-85), is the sole survivor of the Taira clan, which was wiped out in the Battle of Dannoura (1185). Embittered, she spends the remaining years of her life as a nun in the Jakkô-in. On the hill below there is a tea house commissioned in 1929 by the Emperor Hirohito. The main hall was destroyed by arson in 2000. Reconstruction was completed 5 years later.
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