Sengaku-ji
The Sengaku-ji ( Japanese 泉 岳 寺 ) is a Sōtō - Zen - Buddhist temple in Takanawa , Minato in Tokyo . It is best known for the graves of the 47 Rōnin who avenged their master, Asano Naganori ( 浅 野 長 矩 , 1647–1701) who had been driven to seppuku and who then had to commit seppuku themselves.
The Sengaku-ji belongs with the Seishō-ji and the Sōsen-ji to the "Three Sōto Temples" of Edo and the Kantō area ( 関 三 刹 , Kansansatsu ).
description
The Sengaku-ji was originally built on the instructions of Tokugawa Ieyasu by the priest Monnan Sōkan in Sotosakurada near the Shogun residence. After the temple was lost in the "Kan'ei Great Fire" in 1641 (Kan'ei 18), it was rebuilt at the present location by the five daimyō Mōri , Asano , Kutsuki , Niwa and Mizutani on the instructions of Tokugawa Iemitsu .
In addition to the complex typical of Zen Buddhism, consisting of a front gate ( Chūmon ), main gate ( Sammon ), main hall ( Hondō ), bell ( Bonshō ), there is a separate burial ground for Asano and his followers. The spring in which the blood of Kira Yoshinaka was cleansed of blood is also venerated ( Kubi-arai ido ). In the Taishō period , a donated bronze figure of the leader of the Avengers, Ōishi Yoshio, was erected. There is also a hall with memorabilia of the samurai ( Akō gishi kinenkan ).
A commemoration of the event is held every year in early April and December 14th . Incense burns on the graves every day.
The grave of the major entrepreneur from the Meiji period , Takashima Kaemon (1832–1914), is also on the temple grounds.
literature
- Tokyo-to rekishi kyoiku kenkyukai (ed.): Tokyo-to no rekishi sampo (chu). Yamakawa Shuppan, 2000, p. 69, ISBN 978-4-634-29630-5 .
Web links
- Side of the temple
- National Diet Library: Old Photo of the Graves (1900)
Coordinates: 35 ° 38 ′ 15.8 " N , 139 ° 44 ′ 10.6" E