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Yashima-ji is a Shingon temple in Yashima, a lava plateau to the northeast of Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. A branch temple of Ninna-ji in Kyoto, it is the eighty-fourth temple on the Shikoku 88 temple pilgrimage. The Main Hall and bell tower of Yashima-ji still stands after its construction during the Kamakura era at the beginning of the 14th century and classified as an Important Cultural Property. The temple grounds also contain large, stone images of Minoyama Daimyojin, a rascally tanuki raccoon dog that is able to change shape and assume other forms. There are legends of the tanuki meeting Kobo Daishi in the shape of an old man though now the portly, large-testicled Minoyama Daimyojin is a demi-god who bestows good fortune on married couples and mizushobai bar enterprises.

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Yashima-ji is a Shingon temple in Yashima, a lava plateau to the northeast of Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. A branch temple of Ninna-ji in Kyoto, it is the eighty-fourth temple on the Shikoku 88 temple pilgrimage. The Main Hall and bell tower of Yashima-ji still stands after its construction during the Kamakura era at the beginning of the 14th century and classified as an Important Cultural Property. The temple grounds also contain large, stone images of Minoyama Daimyojin, a rascally tanuki raccoon dog that is able to change shape and assume other forms. There are legends of the tanuki meeting Kobo Daishi in the shape of an old man though now the portly, large-testicled Minoyama Daimyojin is a demi-god who bestows good fortune on married couples and mizushobai bar enterprises.