Jōdo-ji (Onomichi)

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Main hall
Treasure pagoda
Amida-do
Dining room
with guest house on the right

The Jōdo-ji ( Japanese 浄土 寺 ) in the city of Onomichi ( Hiroshima Prefecture ) is a temple of the Shingon school of Buddhism .

The temple

According to temple tradition, Prince Shōtoku is said to have been the founder of the temple. What is certain is that a place of prayer has existed there since the end of the Heian period . The actual construction took place from 1306 with the construction of the main hall ( kondō ). But the temple burned down as early as 1325, but the most important buildings were soon rebuilt with the help of the population. An eleven-faced Kannon is worshiped .

During the Namboku period , Ashikaga Takauji visited the temple in 1336 on the way to Kyūshū and donated a collection of 33 poems with a request for military success. The collection is still in the possession of the temple and is registered as an important cultural asset . Takauji determined the Jōdo-ji as one of the protective temples ( 安 国寺 , ankokuji ) in the country.

The individual structures

After passing the temple gate ( 山門 , sammon ; important cultural asset) you stand in front of the

  • Main hall ( 本 堂 , hondō ; national treasure ). It was built in 1327, is built in the Wayo style and adapted to the Zen style with the canopy.
  • Further to the right is the Amida Hall ( 阿 弥陀 堂 , Amida-dō ; important cultural asset)
  • Then follows the treasure pagoda ( 多 宝塔 , tahōtō ; national treasure ), whose year of construction is exactly known as 1328, which is not the case with other treasure pagodas.
  • Other buildings include the Abtresidenz ( 方丈 , hōjō ), a Chinese-style gate ( 唐門 , karamon ), the refectory ( 庫裏 , kuri ) with guest house ( 客 殿 , kyakuden ), another gate, the treasure store ( 宝庫 , hōko ) the Roteki-an pavilion ( Pav 庵 ), a stone pagoda in the Sutrenspeicher style ( 納 経 塔 , nōkyōtō ) and two stone pagodas in the Hōkyōin style ( 宝 篋 印 塔 ).
  • The treasure house ( 宝物 館 , hōmotsukan ) contains Buddhist sculptures, paintings and ancient writings. The "on silk painted mandala of both worlds" ( 絹本色両界曼荼羅図 , Kenbonshiki Ryokai mandara -to ) dates back to 1317. Three Shōtoku sculptures date from the Kamakura period and from the time after that. All three are registered as an important cultural asset.

Others

In the 1953 film Die Reise nach Tokyo, directed by Ozu , the children drive to the place where their mother, Onomichi, lived and died. In the scenes there, Jodo-ji appears on the edge.

literature

  • Hiroshima-ken no rekishisampo henshu iinkai (Ed.): Hiroshima-ken no rekishi sampo. Yamakawa Shuppan, 2009. ISBN 978-4-634-24634-8 .

Web links

Commons : Jōdo-ji (Onomichi)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 34 ° 24 ′ 44 "  N , 133 ° 12 ′ 37"  E