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Temple of the Correct Fortune) is a Rinzai Zen Buddhist temple in Higashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan. Its early 15th century Jizō hall is a registered National Treasure of Japan . It is considered to be the oldest intact building in Tokyo Prefecture and a unique example of Kamakura period architecture.
Sensō-ji (浅草寺 [sẽ̞ꜜɰ̃so̞ːʑi] ⓘ, Sensō-ji, officially Kinryū-zan Sensō-ji (金龍山浅草寺), also known as Asakusa Kannon (浅草観音)), is an ancient Buddhist temple in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. It is Tokyo's oldest-established temple, and one of its most significant. It is dedicated to Kannon, the bodhisattva of ...
The only temple known from historical records such as the Nihon Shoki which corresponds is the Kudara-no-Ōdera (百済大寺) (the predecessor of Daian-ji), which was built by the 34th Emperor Jomei in 639. The site of "Kudara-no-Ōdera", which was one of the first Buddhist temples constructed in Japan, had up until this time been considered ...
Zōjō-ji is notable for its relationship with the Tokugawa clan, the rulers of Japan during the Edo period, with six of the Tokugawa shōguns being buried in the Taitoku-in Mausoleum in the temple grounds. Also, the temple's Sangedatsumon (main gate) is the oldest wooden building in Tokyo, dating from 1622. The original buildings, temples ...
Kuhonbutsu (九品仏), officially designated as Joshin-ji (浄真寺, Joshin-ji), is a Buddhist temple situated in Setagaya, Tokyo. Affiliated with the Jōdo sect, [1] it is dedicated to the Buddha. The temple derives its name from the presence of nine statues, each depicting a different manifestation of Amida Buddha, within its premises. [2]
[8] [9] The ideal temple had a heart formed by seven structures—called Shichidō garan. Buddhism, and the construction of temples, spread from the capital to outlying areas in the Hakuhō period from 645 to 710. [7] Because of fire, earthquakes, typhoons and wars, few of the ancient temples remain.
Tōzen-ji (東禅寺), is a Buddhist temple located in Takanawa, Minato, Tokyo, Japan.The temple belongs to the Myōshin-ji branch of the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen. [1] One of the four great Zen temples of Edo, it is best known in history as the location of the first British legation in Japan during the Bakumatsu period and the site of a number of incidents against foreigners by pro-sonnō ...
Shinran visited the temple during the Kamakura period and brought the temple into the Jodo Shinshu sect. Townsend Harris monument in Zenpuku-ji Under the 1859 Treaty of Amity and Commerce , the first Tokyo legation of the United States of America was established at Zenpuku-ji under Consul-General Townsend Harris .