While Kangiten is worshipped throughout Japan, [[Hōzan-ji]] on the summit of [[Mount Ikoma]] is his most important and active temple. Though the temple is believed to have been founded in the sixth century, it came in the limelight in the 17th century when the monk Tankai (1629-1716) made the temple's [[Gohonzon]], a Heian period, gilt-bronze image of the Dual Kangiten, the centre of attraction. In the [[Genroku]] era (1688-1704), [[Osaka]] merchants, especially vegetable-oil sellers, joined Kangiten's cult, attributing their success to his worship. Business people still continue to worship him at the sanctuary and figurines of the Dual Kangiten are found in shops around the temple. The central Dual Kangiten icon is kept under a phallic cover called the linga-kosa, when not being worshipped.