Everyday name-ji Temple Takao, by which he is better known - Enkiridera, or Temple of the divorce. This Buddhist temple was built the convent, where the husbands or wives of exiled unloved wife ran themselves from abusive husbands and mother. This monastery - the only remaining of the five women, called Amagodzan.

Takao-ji is located just 250 meters from the Temple Engaku-ji. The temple belongs to the Rinzai school, he founded in 1285 a relative of the first Kamakura shogun Minamoto Yoritomo, who was called Mino-no-Tsubone. A first abbess became Kakusan-no, the widow of the sixth Regent Hojo Tokimune, which took after her husband died a monk.

In those days a man could easily divorce, while for women it was a matter not so simple. Officially considered a divorced woman who has lived in the monastery for one year. In 1873 a law was passed on divorce and divorce cases in the courts began to consider, therefore, seeking a divorce in the monastery of women was smaller.

For six centuries, the monastery remained a purely feminine territory, they ran women, including the abbesses became lady of very noble birth, and only in 1902 for the post of rector was given a man.

Temple has repeatedly suffered from fires, but many managed to keep its attractions. In particular, the main hall and the statue of the goddess of mercy Kannon declared national treasures. National heritage is also a temple bell cast in 1255. On the territory of the museum of the history of the temple Matsuga-time. The hall Tayhen-den kept shakai Nyorai Buddha statue, created in XIV-XVI centuries and surrounded by statues of three abbess, among which there are the statue Kakusan-no.

Next to the temple garden, the flowering period which lasts from March to June, and behind the church is a cemetery in which are buried many famous people in Japan.