2017/02/16

Gofunai temples 40 and 41

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From here starts the third part of the Shikoku Pilgrimage to 26 temples
伊予(愛媛)菩提の道場 -- bodai enlightenment - Ehime Iyo



. Shikoku Henro Temple List 四国遍路  .


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Nr. 40 - Fumonin 普門院 Fumon-In

- 福聚山 Fukujuzan 普門院 Fumon-In  善應寺 Zeno-Ji
江東区亀戸3-43-3 / 3 Chome-43-3 Kameido, Kōtō ward
Shingon Sect : 智山派



This temple was founded in 1552 by 長賢上人 Saint Choken.
The main statue is 大日如来 Dainichi Nyorai.

Its first location was at a place where three rivers met, (隅田川 Sumidagawa, 荒川 Arakawa and 綾瀬川 Ayasekawa).
The temple has been relocated to its present place in 1616. During that event, the 梵鐘 great bronze bell fell into the river, which gave rise to the name of the location, 鐘ヶ淵 Kanegafuchi, now in 墨田区 Sumida ward.


綾瀬川鐘ヶ淵 The Ayase River and Kanegafuchi
安藤広重 Ando Hiroshige


The Shogun often came here to rest during their hawking excursions and sat on the famous pine tree


普門院境内御腰掛の松 o-koshikake no matsu
- Ehon Edo Miyage 絵本江戸土産 Illustrated Souvenir Books of Edo


In the compound is a bronze statue of a special Kannon Bosatsu, one of the 33 Kannon types.


jikyoo kannon 持経観音 Jikyo Kannon holding a sutra roll

. 三十三観音 33 Incarnations of Kannon Bosatsu .

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- ご詠歌 - chant of the temple 観自在寺 Kanjizai-Ji in Shikoku :
心願や自在の春に花咲きて 浮世のがれて住むやけだもの
Shingan ya jizai no haru ni hana sakite ukiyo nogarete sumu yake da mono


. Kanjizaiji 観自在寺 Kanjizai-Ji / Shikoku .

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- 朱印 - stamp of the temple :



- Also part of the following pilgrimage:
Related to the Kameido Pilgrimage : 亀戸七福神の毘沙門天 Bishamonten
. 東京都の七福神 Shichi Fukujin Seven Gods of God Luck in Tokyo .


普門院毘沙門堂 Bislhamon Hall at Fumon-In


- Homepage of the temple
- source : tesshow.jp/koto/temple_kameido


. Introduction of Dainichi Nyorai .




Roku Jizoo 六地蔵 Six Jizo Statues in the compound


- - - - - The temple is related to
大島伯鶴 Oshima Hakkaku (1857 - 1912)
伊藤左千夫 Ito Sachiyo (1864 - 1913)

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Ooshima Hakkaku, Ōshima 大島伯鶴 Oshima Hakkaku (1857 - 1912)
stone memorial



He was a 講釈 Koshaku story teller.
The first : His name was 大島光利 Oshima Mitsutoshi. He was a samurai from Fukushima, Shirakawa.
His teacher was 松林伯圓 Shorin Hakuen (1834 - 1905).


The second Hakkaku: 大島保利 Oshima Yasutoshi (1879 - 1946). He used the name Hakkaku since 1911.

. koodan 講談  kooza 講座 kooshaku 講釈 story telling in Edo .


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Itoo Sachio, Itō Sachio 伊藤左千夫 Ito Sachiyo (1864 - 1913)
grave marker for the Tanka poet



..... the pen-name of Itō Kōjirō 伊藤幸次郎, Ito Kojiro,
a Japanese tanka poet and novelist active during the Meiji period of Japan.
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Nr. 41 - Mitsuzooin 密蔵院 Mitsuzo-In

- 十善山 Juzenzan 密蔵院 Mitsuzo-In 蓮花寺 Renge-Ji
中野区沼袋2-33-4 / 2 Chome-33-4 Numabukuro, Nakano ward
Shingon Sect : 御室派 Omuro branch



This temple was founded in 1611 by 慶誉法印 / 慶誉上人 high priest Keiyo.
He was priest at the temple 小田原蓮華寺 Renge-Ji in Odawara, a clan temple of the 北条氏 Hojo, and Tokugawa Ieyasu invited him to come to Edo. He received the temple land at 矢之倉 Yanokura to built a temple to house a statue of Shogun Jizo, which he moved from Oawara. The temple burned down many times and the statue of Jizo was lost.
The temple was moved to 浅草の新寺町 the New Temple Town in Asakusa in 1644.
It was moved to its present location in 1950.
(Yanokura, today 東日本橋一丁目 Higashi Nihonbashi)

The main statue is 十一面観音 Juichimen Kannon with Eleven Heads

and a painting of 勝軍地蔵 Shogun Jizo Bosatsu
. General Shogun Jizo to win a battle .



The gate is very simple, without a roof, kabuki mon 冠木門 - see below - .

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- ご詠歌 - chant of the temple 龍光寺 Ryuko-Ji in Shikoku :
この神は三国流布の密教を 守り給わむ誓いとぞきく
Kono kami wa sangoku rufu no mikkyoo o mamori tamawamu chikai to zo kiku


. Ryuukooji 龍光寺 Ryuko-Ji / Shikoku .
Temple of Dragon's Ray 龍光寺

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- 朱印 - stamp of the temple :



- Homepage of the temple
- source : tesshow.jp/nakano


. Introduction of Kannon Bosatsu .

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kabukimon 冠木門 - Also written koumon 衡門 (koomon).
A roofless gate composed of two square gate posts hashira 柱, either set directly into the ground hottatebashira 堀立柱, or placed on square base stones, nemaki-ishi 根巻石 (see nemaki 根巻).
A heavy horizontal beam or lintel, called kabuki 冠木, is inserted into the posts.
Usually small timbers are placed across the under side of the kabuki beam and sometimes vertically against the inner sides of the posts into which the gate doors are attached. Sometimes the gate doors are secured directly to the posts themselves. The doors open inward.
The top side of the door is straight. Occasionally the door is hung with a space between the door bottom and the ground sill, not only for aesthetic reasons but to prevent water from heavy rains collecting under the doors.
The doors are made of heavy vertical planks and are attached to the posts with decorative hinges called hassou kanagu 八双金具. The doors may have metal decoration called manjuu kanamono 饅頭金物 (see manjuugata 饅頭形). The tops of the posts are pyramidal in shape and are called tokin 兜巾. The band around the tops of the posts and around the kabuki lintel are called fukurin 覆輪.
The posts often are supported on the inner face by an arrangement of props or secondary posts called hikaebashira 控柱 which are connected to the posts with diagonal tie beams and a lower straight tie beam.
Kabukimon may also have a small side door called kowakitobira 小脇扉 attached to one of the posts of the gate.


- - - - - Eikando Minamimon 永観堂南門 (Kyoto)

This type of gate dates back to the Kamakura period and was used by low ranking people. By the Muromachi period, it was used at warriors mansions and as a castle gates.
The use of this type of gate for residences increased during the Edo period.
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. mon 門 gate of a temple, castle, town or estate .

. Edopedia .

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- Kobo Daishi Kukai 弘法大師 空海 (774 - 835) -

. Gyoki Bosatsu 行基菩薩 (668 - 749) Saint Gyōki .

. Shikoku Henro Temple List 四国遍路  .

. Gofunai 御府内八十八ヶ所霊場 Pilgrimage to 88 Henro Temples in Edo .
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2017/02/12

Gofunai temples 38 and 39

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Nr. 38 - Konjooin 金乗院 Konjo-In

- 神霊山 Shinreizan  金乗院 Konjo-In  慈眼寺 Jigen-Ji
豊島区高田2-12-39 / 2 Chome-12-39 Takada, Toshima ward
Shingon Sect : 豊山派



This temple was founded around 1580 by 永順法印 priest Eijun Hoin as a small hall to hold the statue of Kannon.
Eijun died in 1594. He called the temple 蓮花山金乗院, which was related to 中野宝仙寺 Nakano Hosen-Ji.
Later it became related to 護国寺 Gokoku-Ji.
The temple was also related to the shrine dedicated to Konohana Sakurahime, 此花咲耶姫社.

The main statue is 聖観世音菩薩 Kannon Bosatsu. It is only 7 cm high and made of bronze, but it is a secret statue.
After World War II it was united with Nr. 54 東豊山浄滝院 新長谷寺 Shin-Hasedera in Mejiro.
The present main hall dates from 1971 and was renovated again in 2003.

. Nr. 54 - Shinhasedera 新長谷寺 Shin Hasedera "New Hasedera" .


In the compound is a monument from around 1800,
tsubazuka 鍔塚 mound for the sword guard



. tsuba 鍔 sword guard - Introduction .

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- ご詠歌 - chant of the temple 金剛福寺 Kongofuku-Ji in Shikoku :
ふだらくやここは岬の船の棹とるも捨つるも法の蹉山
Fudaraku ya koko wa misaki no fune no saho toru mo sutsuru mo nori no sada yama


. Nr. 38 - 蹉跎山 Sadasan 補陀洛院 Fudaraku-In 金剛福寺 Kongofuku-Ji / Shikoku .

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- Also part of the following pilgrimages:
. 江戸三十三観音霊場 Pilgrimage to 33 Kannon Temples of Edo . - Nr. 14
東京三十三観音霊場 - Nr, 23 of 33 Kannon Temples in Tokyo
江戸五色不動の目白不動 Mejiro Fudo
. 関東三十六不動霊場
Pilgrimage to 36 Fudo Temples in Kanto / Bando .
- Nr. 14

. Toshima Henro Pilgrimage 豊島八十八ヶ所霊場 - Nr. 65 .

- Homepage of the temple
- source : tesshow.jp/toshima


. Kannon Bosatsu 観音菩薩 Avalokiteshvara - Introduction .

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Edo Meisho Zue 江戸名所図会

. Mejiro Fudo 目白不動 White Fudo Myo-O of Mejiro .
The statue of Mejiro Fudo was moved from Sekiguchi Bunkyo-ku to Konjo-In because of fire by World War II on May, 1945.
Kurikara 倶梨伽羅不動庚申 sword monument
hengaku 扁額 temple name plate

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- In the compound is the grave of
Aoyagi Bunzoo 青柳文蔵 Aoyagi Bunzo (1761 - 1839)
He was a rich merchant, born in Iwate, Ichinoseki. In Edo, he collected many books and is the founder of
Aoyagi Bunko 青柳文庫 The Aoyagi Library.



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Aoyagi Bunzo, 青柳文蔵, who was born in the domain of Sendai in 1761, built a fortune in Edo period. He liked reading books and bought many books and then he became a famous book collector. He had lost his child to give over his collections to, and he wanted to utilize his collections for posterity. Therefore he donated about 20000 books and a large amount of money to the domain of Sendai in hope of opening a public library.
The domain of Sendai opened the library with his books, and the library lasted until the Meiji Restoration. It’s said that it was Japan’s first public library and everybody could borrow the books regardless of rank. The collections of books have gradually got scattered and lost.

Now Miyagi Prefectural Library holds about 3600 books of the collections. The Mini Theater SEIRYUKAN, 青柳館 in the library is named after Aoyagi Bunko, 青柳文庫.
Aoyagi, 青柳 is also read ‘seiryu’ in Chinese reading forms.
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公共図書館の祖 青柳文庫と青柳文蔵
早坂信子

. bunko 文庫 famous libraries of Japan .

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- In the compound is the grave of

. Marubashi Chuuya - Chūya 丸橋忠弥 Marubashi Chuya (? - 1651) .




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- In the temple 中野宝仙寺 Nakano Hosen-Ji is the grave of the haiku poet

. Usuda Aro 臼田亜浪 .


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Nr. 39 - Shinjooin 真成院 Shinjo-In

- 金鶏山 Kinkeizan 真成院 Shinjo-In 海繁寺 Kaihan-Ji
新宿区若葉2-7-8 / 2 Chome-7-8 Wakaba, Shinjuku ward
Shingon Sect : 真言宗


The temple is a modern building from 1971, with only a small garden at the entrance.

This temple was founded in 1598 by 清心法印 priest Seishin Hoin.
The main statues are 阿弥陀如来 Amida Nyorai, 金剛界大日如来 Dainichi Nyorai and 釈迦如来 Shaka Nyorai.
But the most important is now
Shiohi Kannon 潮干観音 / 潮干十一面観世音菩薩 - see below

The Buddhas of this temple are powerful at healing cancer 癌の駆け込み寺, and many ill people come here to seek healing.

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- ご詠歌 - chant of the temple 延光寺 Enko-Ji in Shikoku :
なむ薬師諸病悉除の願こめて 詣る我が身を助けましませ
Namu Yakushi shobyō shitsujo no guwan komete mairu waga mi o tasukemashimase


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- 朱印 - stamp of the temple :


- Also part of the following pilgrimages:
. 江戸三十三観音霊場 Pilgrimage to 33 Kannon Temples of Edo . - Nr. 18
. 関東九十一薬師霊場 Kanto Pilgrimage to 91 Yakushi temples . - Nr. 13

- Homepage of the temple
- source : kinonoki.com/book



真成院地蔵菩薩 / 延命地蔵菩薩 Statue of Enmei Jizo Bosatsu

. Enmei Jizoo 延命地蔵 life-prolonging Jizo Bosatsu .

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Shiohi Kannon 潮干観音 "Kannon of the Ebb Tide"
The temple used to be close to the sea and during high tide the statue often got wet.
Now the statue is venerate on the third floor of the building.
Near the temple is a slope called Kannonzaka 観音坂.



. Kannon Bosatsu 観音菩薩 Avalokiteshvara .

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In the compound is the small shrine 雨宝稲荷神社 Uho Inari Jinja .



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This is the end of the second part of the Shikoku Pilgrimage to 16 temples
土佐(高知)修行の道場 -- shugyo austerities - Kochi Tosa



. Shikoku Henro Temple List 四国遍路  .

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- Koya San in Wakayama 和歌山 高野山 -

- Kobo Daishi Kukai 弘法大師 空海 (774 - 835) -

. Gyoki Bosatsu 行基菩薩 (668 - 749) Saint Gyōki .

. Gofunai 御府内八十八ヶ所霊場 Pilgrimage to 88 Henro Temples in Edo .
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2017/02/10

Gofunai temples 36 and 37

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Nr. 36 - Yakuooin 薬王院 Yakuo-In

- 瑠璃山 Rurisan 医王寺 Io-Ji 薬王院 Yakuo-In
新宿区下落合4-8-2 / 4 Chome-8-2 Shimoochiai, Shinjuku ward
Shingon Sect : 豊山派



This temple was founded in the Kamakura period by 願行上人 Saint Gangyo Shonin.
The main statue is 薬師如来 Yakushi Nyorai.
Related to the shrine 下落合氷川神社 Shimo-Ochiai, Hikawa Jinja.
Related to the temple 長谷寺 Hasedera in Nara. It is even called
Higashi Hasedera 東長谷寺 Hasedera temple in the East
Hasedera in Nara is famous for its peonies, and this temple got some plants directly from it. Now it has more than 1000 plants in the garden, which is best visited from mid-April till the beginning of May.
Thus the temple is also called
Botandera ボタン寺、牡丹寺 Peony Temple

In the compound are also many stone grave markers from around 1640.
Around 1675, Saint 実寿上人 Jitsuji Shonin revived the temple, which had fallen into oblivion soon after it was founded.


. Hasedera 長谷寺 Nara .
Hasedera Temple is famous for its peony garden and has 7,000 plants and 150 species of peony planted in the grounds.
Hatsuse 初瀬 - old spelling

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- ご詠歌 - chant of the temple 青龍寺 Shoryu-Ji in Shikoku :
わずかなる泉にすめる青龍は  仏法守護の誓いとぞきく
Wazuka naru izumi ni sumeru shōryū wa buppō shugo no chikai tozo kiku


. 36 - Shooryuuji 青龍寺 Shoryu-Ji / Shikoku .
The Temple of the Azure Dragon

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- 朱印 - stamp of the temple :


- Also part of the following pilgrimage:
豊島八十八ヶ所霊場 - Toshima Henro Nr. 36


- Homepage of the temple
- source : tesshow.jp/shinjuku


. Introduction of Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 Bhaisajyaguru .

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Nr. 37 - Mantokuin 萬徳院 Mantoku-In

- 瑠璃光山 Rurikozan  萬徳院 Mantoku-In
江東区永代2-37-23 / 2 Chome-37-23 Eitai, Kōtō ward
Shingon Sect : 真言宗



This temple was founded in 1626 at 八丁堀材木町 Hatchobori, Zaimokumachi. It was relocated to its present place in 1643.
The main statue is 薬師如来 Yakushi Nyorai.

There are many graves of famous Sumo wrestlers in the compound, for example 伊勢ノ海 Isenoumi, 佐渡ケ嶽 Sadogatake and 六代目式守伊之助 the sixth Oyakata Shikimori Inosuke.
Therefore this temple is also called
Sumoodera 相撲寺 Sumo Temple.



. sumoo 相撲 Sumo wrestling - Introduction .

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- ご詠歌 - chant of the temple 岩本寺 Iwamoto-Ji in Shikoku :
六つのちり五つの社あらわしてふかき仁井田の神のたのしみ
Mutsu no chiri itsutsu no yashiro arawashite fukaki niita no kami no tanoshimi


. 37 - 藤井山 Fujiisan 五智院 Gochi-In 岩本寺 Iwamoto-Ji / Shikoku .

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- Homepage of the temple
- source : tesshow.jp/koto/temple_eitai_mantoku

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- Kobo Daishi Kukai 弘法大師 空海 (774 - 835) -

. Gyoki Bosatsu 行基菩薩 (668 - 749) Saint Gyōki .

. Shikoku Henro Temple List 四国遍路  .

. Gofunai 御府内八十八ヶ所霊場 Pilgrimage to 88 Henro Temples in Edo .
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2017/02/08

Gofunai temples 34 and 35

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Nr. 34 - Sannenji 三念寺 Sannen-Ji

- 醫王山 / 薬王山 Yakuozan 遍照院 Henjo-In 三念寺 Sannen-Ji
文京区本郷2-15-6 / 2 Chome-15-6 Hongō, Bunkyō ward
Shingon Sect : 豊山派


The temple looks like a modern two-story building.

This temple was founded in 1472 by Saint 品隆上人.
The main statue is 薬師如来 Yakushi Nyorai, made by 慈覺大師 / 慈覚大師 Jigaku Daishi. The priest 恵心僧都原信 Eshin Sozu Genshin (942 - 1017) kept it to pray for the healing of his mother.

Above the entrance is a large name plate with the letters 薬王山 Yakuozan.


The place of its foundation was at the slope 三念坂 / 三年坂 Sannenzaka, refering to a slope with three temples.
It was moved to its present location in 1603.
Nearby was the estate of the Daimyo 小笠原壱岐守 Ogawawara Iki no Kami Nagamichi (1862 – 1868).
In the compound were many graves of famous people, but after the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923 they were moved to 多摩墓地 Tama Graveyard.

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- ご詠歌 - chant of the temple 種間寺 Tanemadera, Tanemaji in Shikoku :
世の中にまける五穀のたねま寺 深き如来の大悲なりけり
Yo no naka ni makeru gokoku no Tanemadera fukaki Nyorai no daihi narikeri


. 種間寺 Tanema-Ji / Shikoku .

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- 朱印 - stamp of the temple :


- Homepage of the temple
- source : tesshow.jp/bunkyo


. Introduction of Yakushi Nyorai .

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. Ennin - Jigaku Daishi 慈覚大師 - (794 – 864) .

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Genshin - 恵心僧都原信 Eshin Sozu Genshin (942 - 1017)

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Genshin 源信 (942 – July 6, 1017), also known as Eshin Sozu,
was the most influential of a number of Tendai scholars active during the tenth and eleventh centuries in Japan. He was not a wandering evangelist as Kūya was, but was an elite cleric who espoused a doctrine of devotion to Amida Buddha which taught that because Japan was thought to have entered mappō, the "degenerate age" of the "latter law," the only hope for salvation lay in the reliance on the power of Amitabha. Other doctrines, he claimed, could not aid an individual because they depended on "self-power" (jiriki), which cannot prevail during the chaos of the degenerate age, when the power of another (tariki) is necessary.
In his approach to rebirth in the Pure Land, Genshin emphasized visual meditation practices, where later Pure Land sects favored verbal recitations such as the nembutsu. Genshin's doctrine is documented in his magnum opus, the Ōjōyōshū (往生要集 "Essentials of Birth in the Pure Land"), which in later copies of the text came complete with graphic depictions of the joy of the blessed and the suffering of those doomed to chaos.



Genshin's influence in contemporary Japanese culture today is primarily due to his treatise, Ōjōyōshū, particularly the graphic descriptions of the Buddhist hell realms (地獄 jigoku), which inspired a genre of horror and morality stories. The 1960 Japanese film Jigoku was influenced by Genshin's Ōjōyōshū among other works.
In Jodo Shinshu Buddhism, he is considered the Sixth Patriarch.
Genshin
is credited as the founder of the Enshin school of Tendai Buddhism, and for espousing the "original enlightenment" teaching, or hongaku (本覚), where one is originally enlightened, but unaware of it. In all, Genshin left more than 30 works which continue to influence Pure Land thought today.
The image of Amida Nyorai
in the main building of Yasaka-ji Temple in Shikoku is said to have been made by Genshin in the Heian Period.
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. The Heian Period 平安時代 Heian jidai (794 - 1185) .
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. Temple 西福寺 Saifuku-Ji, Ibaraki .
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Nr. 35 - Konshooin 根生院 Konsho-In

-  金剛賓山 Kongohozan 根生院 Konsho-In 延寿寺 Enju-Ji
豊島区高田1-34-6 / 1 Chome-34-6 Takada, Toshima ward
Shingon Sect : 豊山派



This temple was founded in 1636 by 春日局の猶子榮春法印 the adopted child of Kasuga no Tsubone, Priest Eishun (Shigeharu) and was under the protection as a special temple of the Tokugawa Shogunate 幕府の祈願所.
The main statue is 薬師如来 Yakushi Nyorai made by 仏師春日 the Buddhist sculptor Kasuga.

The temple was first built in 神田白壁町 Kanda, Shirakabecho.
In 1654 it was moved to 下谷長者町 Shitaya Chojamachi.
In 1688 it was relocated to 本郷切通坂 Hongo Kiritoshizaka.
In 1690 it was allocated more land by 将軍綱吉 Shogun Tsunayoshi.
In 1889 it was relocated to 上野池端七軒町 Ueno Ikenohata Shichikenmachi
In 1902/03 it was relocated to 徳川田安候旧邸 the estate of the Tokugawa Tayasu clan.
In 1945 during the war it burned down and all buildings except the main gate were lost.



The present-day main building is from 2002, with a large glass front.

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- ご詠歌 - chant of the temple 清滝寺 Kiyotaki-Ji in Shikoku :
澄む水を汲めば心の清滝寺 波の花散る岩の羽衣
Sumu mizu o kumeba kokoro no Kiyotakiji nami no hana chiru iwa no hagoromo


. 清瀧寺 / 清滝寺 Kiyotaki-Ji / Shikoku .
Iozan 医王山 Mountain of the Medicine Deity

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- 朱印 - stamp of the temple :



- Homepage of the temple
- source : tesshow.jp/toshima


Since 1687 this temple belongs to the 江戸四ヶ寺 "four important temples of Edo" of the sect
新義真言宗 Shingi Shingon-Shu:
青蓮寺 Shoren-Ji (Nr. 19) - the first one
根生院 Konjo-In (Nr. 35) // 真福寺 Shinpuku-Ji (Nr. 67) // 弥勒寺 Miroku-Ji (Nr. 46)


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. Lady Kasuga 春日局 Kasuga no Tsubone (1579 – 1643) .

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. Shikoku Henro Temple List 四国遍路  .

. Gofunai 御府内八十八ヶ所霊場 Pilgrimage to 88 Henro Temples in Edo .
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