Gakudo, Votive Tablet Display Hall
Important Cultural Property
This magnificent structure is the Gakudo, where votive offerings from worshippers, including tablets inscribed with prayers and wishes called ema (tablets with pictures of horses), are displayed. Built in 1861, this is Naritasan Shinshoji Temple's second Gakudo. The first, dedicated by the famous Kabuki actor Danjuro Ichikawa VII (1791–1859) in 1821, tragically burned down in 1965.