The Mummy at Saisho-ji Temple travel.gaijinpot.com

Hidden within the mountaintop Saisho-ji Temple in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture sits the mummified corpse of Kochi Hoin.
Further inside is what looks like a mummified cat, but the temple insists it’s a ‘thunder beast.’ You’ll have to see this one to believe it.
He ascended to the realm of eternal meditation and became a mummy through a process of self-starvation in 1363.
For the temple itself, there’s also a human skull and taxidermied wolf on display.
Further inside is what looks like a mummified cat, but the temple insists it’s a “thunder beast.” You’ll have to see this one to believe it.