Mizusawa-dera
The Mizusawa-dera ( Japanese 水 澤 寺 ), also simply Mizusawa Kannon ( 水 澤 観 音 ), with the mountain name Gotoku-san ( 五 徳 山 ), is a temple of the Tendai Buddhism in Shibukawa ( Gunma Prefecture ), Japan. In the traditional census it is the 16th of the 33 temples in the Kantō region .
history
According to tradition, the temple was founded at the request of Empress Suiko by high priest Ekan ( 慧 灌 ) at the beginning of the 7th century and later promoted by Empress Jitō .
The attachment
One climbs up a staircase from the street to the temple gate ( 山門 Sammon ; 1 in the plan), which is here as a red-painted, magnificent tower gate ( 楼門 Rōmon ), i.e. two-story. The passage is guarded by the two sculptures of the temple guards ( 仁王 Ni-ō ) to the right and left of the passage. At the top you have the bell tower ( 鐘楼 Shōrō ; 4) on the right and you can see the main hall ( 本 堂 Hondō ; 2), which has a pyramid roof .
To the right of the main hall is the hexagonal Rokkaku-dō ( 六角 堂 ; 3). The building has two storeys and contains a rotating sutras store ( 輪 蔵 Rinzō ) on the ground floor . There are Jizō figures on the walls . A Dainichi Buddha ( 大 日 如 来 Dainichi Nyorai ) is venerated on the upper floor . Rokkaku-dō, which is unusual in its kind, is registered as a cultural asset of the prefecture.
The modern assembly hall Shaka-dō ( 釈 迦 堂 , named after Shaka Nyorai ; 5) is located at the entrance to a large parking lot . From there you go along the stalls until you come to Rokkaku-dō and the main hall. Further west, accessible via a staircase, is the small Shinto shrine, in which Iizuna Daigongen ( 飯 縄 大 権 現 ; S) is worshiped.
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Niō Gate
Rokkaku-do
Bell tower
Shaka hall
literature
- Gumma-ken kotogakko kyoiku kenkyukai rekishi bukai (Ed.): Mizusawa kannon . In: Gumma-ken no rekishi sampo. Yamakawa Shuppan, 2005, ISBN 978-4-634-24610-2 , p. 192.
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Coordinates: 36 ° 28 ′ 45.6 ″ N , 138 ° 56 ′ 43 ″ E