Ichijō-ji
The Ichijō-ji ( Japanese. 一 乗 寺 ) with the Gō Hokke-zan ( 法 華山 ) is a Buddhist temple in the municipality of Kasai , Hyōgo prefecture in Japan . The temple is associated with the Tendai-shu belief .
The main portrait of the temple is a statue of the Kannon (Sho-Kannon). Ichijō-ji is the 26th temple on the Saigoku pilgrimage route ( 西 国 三十 三 箇 所 , Saigoku sanjūsankasho ).
historical overview
The founding of Ichijō-ji cannot be documented. According to tradition, the temple was founded in 650 by the hermit Sennin Hōdō at the request of Emperor Kōtoku . According to legend, Hōdō Sennin came from India on a purple cloud over China and Korea. There are many temple traces in the area that suggest that the temple actually dates from the Hakuhō period. 2.5 km further north at the foot of Mount Kasamatsu there is the field name Furuhokke. There is a Nyorai Buddha carved in stone, which leads to the assumption that the original temple was not in the current location, but there.
In 988, Emperor Kazan named the main hall “Daihikaku” ( 大悲 閣 ) and made it the 26th temple of the Saigoku Pilgrimage Route, praising it with the following lines: “Cherry blossoms in spring, camellias in summer, chrysanthemums in autumn”.
The attachment
- Main hall (Kondō, Daikōdō, Daihikaku): The first, legendary, main hall is dated to 650, the second was rebuilt at the request of Emperor Go-Daigo in 1335 under the name "Daikōdō" ( 大 講堂 ). After this building burned down in the chaos of war in 1523, it was rebuilt in 1562 by Akamatsu Yoshitsuke. In 1617 the building was lost due to a fire, but in 1628 the hall was rebuilt with a particularly wide anteroom by Honda Tadamasa , daimyo of Himeji. It is classified as an Important Cultural Asset of Japan . After severe damage from a typhoon in 1999, the main hall has been open to the public again since 2007. The main hall is reached via three stairs with a total of 150 steps. ( Important cultural asset )
- Three-tiered pagoda (Sanju-no-tō): Oldest building on the temple grounds is a built in Wayo style three-story pagoda ( National Treasure ). From signatures in the bricks we know that it was built in the 1st year of Shōan (1171) and completed in 1174.
- Bell tower (Shōrō): Built in 1628, together with the reconstruction of the main hall. (An important cultural asset of the prefecture).
- Kaisandō: Located in the back of the forest, this building with a square floor plan ( Hōgyō style reveres the founders Hōdō. The current building dates from the Edo period.
- Hall Dōkōdo (Amidadō): Located halfway up, the hall, originally built at the request of the Emperor Shōmu , was rebuilt in 1553. The current building dates from the Meiji period.
- Chinju sansha : North of the main hall are the small shrines, Gohō-sha (Kamakura period, Bishamon is revered ), the Benten-sha (Muromachi period, Benzaiten ) and the larger shrine Myōken-sha (Myōken-bosatsu, Muromachi- Time). All three shrines are important cultural assets ).
Temple treasures
The cultural treasures of Ichijō-ji include scrolls with Shōtoku and the ten patriarchs of Tendai-shū from the 12th century (national treasure ). Together with other scrolls classified as important cultural assets, these objects are kept in the national museums of Nara and Tokyo. The great age of the temple is also evidenced by the main image, which is classified in the late Asuka period . A number of statues made of metal or wood (documented by signatures for the late Heian or Kamakura period) are classified as important cultural assets.
literature
- Folder of the Temple (Japanese).
- Nozawa N .: Hyogo-ken no rekishi sampo . 2006. ISBN 4-634-24828-X .
- Patricia Frame Rugola: The Saikoku Kannon Pilgrimage Route . Dissertation, Ohio State University, 1986.
- Valeria Jana Schwanitz and August Wierling: Saigoku. On the way in Japan's western lands . Manpuku-Verlag, Potsdam 2012, ISBN 978-3-9815168-0-7 .
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Coordinates: 34 ° 51 ′ 33.5 ″ N , 134 ° 49 ′ 8.5 ″ E