Iyo Kokubun-ji

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Main hall
Plan of the temple (see text)

The Iyo Kokubun-ji ( Japanese 伊予国分寺 ) with the Mountain name Kongōzan ( 金光山 ) and the lower punch names Saisho-in ( 最勝院 ) is an important temple of Saidaiji direction ( 西大寺派 Saidaiji-ha ) of Shingon Buddhism in the small "turtle hill" ( 亀 山 Kameyama ) in the city of Imabari (Ehime prefecture). Today the temple is the 59th in the traditional counting of the Shikoku pilgrimage route .

history

The Iyo Kokubun-ji was the provincial temple ( Kokubunji ), i. H. Main temple, the province of Iyo and was built at the behest of Emperor Shōmu by the priest Gyōki , who made a figure of Yakushi Nyorai , the healing Buddha. The temple was expanded with all the necessary buildings to a complete system, a Shichidō Garan ( 七 堂 伽藍 ). The generals of the area, the rich landowners such as the Kōno ( 河野 ) and Ochi ( 越 知 ) supported the temple, which also took on civil administrative functions. Later, the temple often got into armed conflict , beginning with the unrest in the time of Fujiwara no Sumitomo ( 藤原 純 友 ; 893–943). Most recently he was visited four times by Chōsokabe's troops during the Tenshō era (1573–1592) , so that nothing was left of the former size. It was not until the end of the Edo period that the temple was rebuilt on the hill nearby.

The attachment

The temple can be reached from the south via a staircase flanked by columns at the top. The bell tower ( 鐘楼 Shōrō ; 3) is on the right in the front area . Straight ahead you have the main hall ( 本 堂 Hondō ; 1) in front of you: it dates from 1789 and is registered as a cultural asset of the prefecture. To the right of this is the hall dedicated to the temple founder, the Daishi-dō ( 大師 堂 ; 2).

About 100 m east of the temple there are traces of the former pagoda ( 国 分 寺塔 跡 Kokubuni tōseki ; 4) of the temple. The base has an area of ​​99 square meters, there were found 13 large pillar-base stones, of which the central one is 70 cm thick. In the middle the stones are 3.6 m apart, the outer ones 3.3 m apart. From the mighty base it is concluded that the pagoda was 60 m high.

At the top of the hill is the small Kasuga shrine ( 春日 神社 -jinja ; S).

photos

  • stairway

  • Up at the temple

  • Bell jar

  • Daishi-do

  • Water basin

  • Foundation of the pagoda

literature

  • Ehime-ken kotogakko chireki komin bukai rekishi bukai (Ed.): Sankaku-ji. In: Ehime-ken no rekishi sampo. Yamakawa Shuppan, 2008. ISBN 978-4-634-24638-6 . Pages 84, 86.
  • Oguri, Doei: Kukai. Shikoku hachijuhachi kosho no arukikata. Chukei no Bunko, 2011. ISBN 978-4-8061-4067-2 .

Web links

Commons : Kokubun-ji  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 34 ° 1 ′ 34.2 ″  N , 133 ° 1 ′ 31.6 ″  E

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