Chōhō-ji

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Main hall
Main hall plan
Treasure pagoda

The Chōhō-ji ( Japanese 長 保 寺 ) is a temple of the Tendai direction of Buddhism in the city of Kainan in Wakayama Prefecture .

history

According to tradition, the temple was built at the request of Emperor Ichijō in the year 1000, based on the Shoshazan Enkyō-ji ( 書写 山 円 教 寺 ) in Himeji .

In the 17th century he became the burial temple ( 菩提 寺 , bodaiji) of the Kishū-Tokugawa . In the modern era, the temple had five secondary temples in addition to the abbot's Yōshō-in ( 陽 照 ), today only the Fukusō-in ( 福 蔵 ) remain next to the Yōshō-in .

The attachment

You enter the temple located on the mountain slope below through the "Great Gate" ( 大門 , Daimon ). It was built as a two-story tower gate during the middle Muromachi period . At the top, at the end of a long stone staircase, you come to the temple grounds.

The main hall ( Hondō ) from the Kamakura period has an almost square floor plan of 5 × 5  Ken , here 13 × 15.35 m. It has a hip roof. Next to it is a treasure pagoda ( Tahōtō ), it comes from the end of the Kamakura period or from the beginning of the Muromachi period . It has a side length of 3 ken and is made in pure "Japanese style" . - All three buildings belong to national treasures of Japan .

Behind the main hall is the small Chinju shrine ( 鎮守 堂 , Chinju-dō ) from the late Kamakura period, which is registered as an important cultural asset . It is 3 × 3 Ken tall, here 5.4 × 5.4 m and has a hanging roof.

The Chōhō-ji was determined in 1666 by the first prince of the Kishū line of the Tokugawa, Tokugawa Yorinobu ( 徳 川 頼 宣 ; 1602–1671), as the family burial temple. All successors, starting with him, are buried there, except for the 5th and 13th (= 14th) bosses, who are buried in Edo / Tokyo. The tomb, which is decorated with 330 stone lanterns, is registered as a National History Trail ( pur 史跡 , Kuni-shiseki ).

photos

  • Big gate

  • Stairs to the temple

  • Chinju shrine

  • Tokugawa Shigenori's tomb

Remarks

  1. ↑ Tokugawa Yoshimune took over the headquarters in Edo.
  2. ↑ Tokugawa Shigenori ( 徳 川 重 倫 ; 1746-1829) was the 8th head of the Tokugawa Kii line.

literature

  • Wakayama-ken kotogakko-shakai-ka kenkyu-kyokai (Ed.): Choho-ji. In: Wakayama-ken no rekishi sampo. Yamakawa Shuppan, 2009, ISBN 978-4-634-24630-0 , pp. 58-59.

Web links

Commons : Chōhō-ji  - collection of images

Coordinates: 34 ° 6 ′ 32.8 "  N , 135 ° 9 ′ 56.3"  E