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kaisan 開山 temple founder
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Kaisan (開山) is a Japanese term used in reference to the founder of a school of Buddhism or the founding abbot of a Zen monastery, literally meaning "mountain founder" or "to open a mountain." Ch'an monasteries of China and Japan have traditionally been built in mountainous regions, with the name of whatever mountain it has been built upon then fixed upon the monastery as well as the founding abbot.
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A kaisandoo (開山堂, kaisan-dō), also termed the Founder's Hall,
is a temple structure in a Japanese Buddhist monastery complex or other temple where an image (or images) of the founding abbot and other significant teachers and Buddha ancestors are kept, along with a memorial slab (J. ihai). Sometimes also referred to as the Patriarch Hall (J. soshido) or Reflection Hall (J. Eishitsu), this building holds memorial services yearly on the anniversary of the death of the founding abbot.
The largest Founder's Hall in Japan is the Goei-dō (御影堂) in front of the Higashi Hongwanji (Hongan-ji) Temple in Kyoto, Japan, one of two head temples of the Jōdo Shinshū sect of Buddhism.
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Myooshinji 妙心寺 Myoshin-Ji - Kyoto
mieidoo 御影堂 Miei-do "Honorable Shadow Hall", founder's hall
with the image of the originator
hall dedicated to the founder, "Reflection Hall"
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kaisandou 開山堂 kaisando
A hall that enshrines a statue, portrait or memorial tablet of the founder of a temple or the founder of a particular Buddhist sect to which the temple belongs. Frequently, the halls are 3x3 bays square but sizes vary. The word kaisan 開山 means founder.
There are other names for these halls depending on the sect and the time of establishment, but the usual term at Zen sect temples is kaisandou. Temples of Joudo 浄土 or Joudoshin 浄土真 sects, often call these halls *mieidou 御影堂 Miei-Do.
In the Shingon 真言 sect, the hall is called *daishidou 大師堂 Daishi-Do after the founder *Kuukai 空海 (774-835), who was posthumonsly given the name *Kobo Daishi 弘法大師 in 921. Other names used instead of kaisandou are *soshidou 祖師堂 Soshi-Do, meaning a hall dedicated to the founder of the sect, for example that at Manpukuji 萬福寺 (1669) in Kyoto, shidou 祀堂 Shi-Do and haidou 牌堂 Hai-Do. There was a great proliferation of founder's halls during the Kamakura period.
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Some temples are established by direct orders from an Emperor (chokugan-ji).
When an emperor decided to have a temple built with a certain vow to the deities, he usually entrusted a high priest with the effort to visit that region and supervise the construction.
The founder of a temple is called kaisan.
. Chokuganji 勅願寺 Chokugan-Ji, "Imperial Temple" .
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. Daitoku-ji Kaisan-Ki 大徳寺開山忌 .
Daitoo Ki 大燈忌（だいとうき）Priest Daito Memorial Day
kigo for late winter - 陰暦十二月二十二日
. Kennin-Ji Kaisan Ki 建仁寺開山忌 .
Eisai Zenji 栄西禅師 (1141-1215)
kigo for late summer
Myooshinji Kaisan Ki 妙心寺開山忌
Kanzan Ki 関山忌（かんざんき）、Musoo Ki 無相忌（むそうき）
Musoo Kokushi 無相大師
kigo for late winter - 陰暦の十二月十二日
. Tooeizan Kaisan Ki 東叡山開山忌 .
Jigen Daishi Ki 慈眼大師忌 - 天海（てんかい) (1536-1643)
kigo for early winter
Toofukuji Kaisan Ki 東福寺開山忌
Shoo-ichi ki 聖一忌, Kokushi ki 国師忌
kigo for early winter - 十一月十六日 - Temple Kofuku-Ji, Higashiyama, Kyoto
. Yugyoo-Ji Kaisan Ki 遊行寺開山忌 .
Saint Ippen (1234 – 1289) 一遍
kigo for spring
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寒月や開山堂の木の間より
kangetsu ya kaisandoo no ki no ma yori
this cold moon -
from among the trees
of the founder's hall
. Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 in Edo .
kangetsu 寒月（かんげつ）"moon in the cold", moon on a cold night
kigo for late winter
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at temple Hoounji 法雲寺 Houn-Ji 大宝山 法雲禅寺(黄檗宗) Osaka
蜥蜴出づ開山堂の踏石に
tokage izu kaisandoo no fumi-ishi ni
a lizard comes out
to the stepping stones
of the Founder's Hall
Kashiwara Min-U 柏原眠雨
. tokage izu 蜥蜴出づ（とかげいづ） lizard coming out .
kigo for spring
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