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This temple, located in Furudono-machi, Ishikawa-gun, Fukushima Prefecture, was founded during the Kamakura period (1185-1333) by Nyoshin, a grandson of Shinran. Initially, it was called Oami Gobo, but two generations later, in the reign of Kunyo, the name was changed to Gannyu-ji. Until the early Edo period, it was located outside Oarai Town, but after the Enpo period (1673-1681) when Tokugawa Mitsukuni (Yoshikimi) served as the lord of the Mito Domain, it was relocated to Iwai-cho in Oarai. The Main Hall and the Kaikido Hall of Gannyu-ji Temple house the standing statue of Amida Nyorai, a portrait of the holy priest Shinran, incense bowls, and other prefecture-designated cultural properties. In and around the grounds, there is a ginkgo tree said to have been hand-planted by Tokugawa Mitsukuni, a statue of Chikurakubo, who worked to popularize the Isobushi folk song, and a hall dedicated to Narutaki Mansuke, who was killed in a revenge attack during the Edo period.