Also known as Jōkan-ji
thumb|Modern entrance of Jōkan-ji in Arakawa, Tokyo thumb|Cemetery of Jōkan-ji Jōkan-ji () is a Buddhist temple in Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan. Its cemetery houses the remains of about 25,000 prostitutes and fire victims of the Yoshiwara quarter of the Edo period. A memorial to the dead was consecrated in the Meiji era.
thumb|Modern entrance of Jōkan-ji in Arakawa, Tokyo thumb|Cemetery of Jōkan-ji Jōkan-ji () is a Buddhist temple in Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan. Its cemetery houses the remains of about 25,000 prostitutes and fire victims of the Yoshiwara quarter of the Edo period. A memorial to the dead was consecrated in the Meiji era.
== History == The temple was opened in 1655. The dead bodies of prostitutes of the Yoshiwara quarter who were too poor, which was the vast majority of them, were tucked into a hay mat and brought to the back entrance of the temple and left there. This is the reason that the temple became popularly known as Nage-komi-dera (Throw-away temple).
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