Raikyu-ji
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The Raikyū-ji ( Japanese 頼 久 寺 ), also called Tenchū-zan Ankoku Raikyū-ji (天柱山 安 国 頼 久), is a temple that belongs to the Eigen-ji branch of the Rinzai school . It is located in the city of Takahashi in Okayama Prefecture in Japan. He is known for his Japanese garden , which has been awarded the title of "special attraction" (名勝, meishō) by the state.
To the temple
When Shogun Ashikaga Takauji arranged that protective temples (安 国寺, Ankoku-ji) should be built in all parts of the country, according to their own tradition, this temple was also built in 1339. This would make it the predecessor temple of today's Ankoku-ji in the Bitchū province . In the Eishō period (1504-1521) caused Prince Ueno Yorihisa (上 野 頼 久; † 1521), who resided at the nearby Matsuyama Castle, that the temple was rebuilt. His first name, read in Sino-Japanese "Raikyū", became the name of the temple.
The garden
This was the temporary residence of the commissioner for the Bitchū province, Kobori Enshū , who is said to have laid out the garden from 1605 onwards. It is also called the "crane and turtle garden" (鶴 亀 の 庭, Tsuru-kame no niwa). The flat garden is laid out in the Zen style as "Karesansui-Hōrai-teien" (枯 山水 蓬莱 庭園), whereby it integrates the nearby mountain Atago (宕 宕 山, Atago-san) as a “borrowed landscape” (借 景, shakkei).
The “crane island” is laid out in the middle of the white gravel, and there is also a “turtle island”. Cranes and turtles are symbolized by stones; in this garden they are framed by short-cut bushes. Short-cut azalea bushes form “blue ocean waves” (青 海波, seikaha).
In the garden there is a stone lantern, for which monk Sainen (西 念) collected the money in 1399.
From the collection of the temple
Among the temple treasures, the representation on silk of Shaka with two companions (絹本 着色 釈 迦 三 尊像, Kenbon chakushoku Shaka sanzon-zō) from the Kamakura period is listed as an important cultural asset . The piece is in the Nara National Museum . A depiction on silk by the abbot Jakushitsu Genkō (1290-1367; 絹本 着色 寂 室 元 光 頂 相, Kenbon chakushoku Jakushitsu Genkō chinzō) is registered as a cultural asset of the prefecture and is in the History and Art Museum of the city of Takahashi (市 市 歴 史 美術博物館).
literature
- Okayama-ken no rekishisampo henshukai (Ed.): Okayama-ken no rekishi sampo. Yamakawa Shuppan, 2009, ISBN 978-4-634-24633-1 .
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Coordinates: 34 ° 47 '50.5 " N , 133 ° 37' 8.2" E