Zenjibu-ji

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Main hall
Plan of the temple (see text)

The Zenjibu-ji ( Japanese 禅師 峰 寺 ), with the mountain name Hachiyōzan ( 八 葉 山 ) and the sub-temple name Gumonji-in ( 求 聞 持 院 ) in the city of Nankoku ( Kōchi Prefecture ), is a temple of the Buzan branch ( 豊 山 派 Buzan -ha ) of Shingon Buddhism . In the traditional count, it is the 32nd temple on the Shikoku pilgrimage route .

history

The temple is located on the 82 m high Mineyama ( 峰山 ), from which one has a view of the nearby Pacific. According to tradition, priest Gyōki built a temple there to protect fishermen at sea at the request of the emperor Shōmu . When later in the year Daidō 2 (807) priest Kūkai visited the temple, he made an eleven-faced Kannon ( 十 一面 観 世 音 菩薩 Juichimen Kannon bōsatsu ) for him and gave the place of worship the name Zenshibu-ji. Since the hill resembles a lotus pedestal with eight leaves, the temple was nicknamed Hachiyōzan. The temple was later promoted at the beginning of the Edo period by the first prince of Tosa, Yamanouchi Katsutoyo ( 山 内 一 豊 ; 1545–1605). It continued to be an important temple for fishermen.

There are many unusual, strangely shaped stones ( 奇岩 怪石 Kigan kaiseki ) on the temple grounds . A line of verse written by the poet Matsuo Bashō at Hōrai-ji ( 鳳 来 寺 ) in Aichi prefecture , for example “Under old trees there are pointed stones, thick crescent firs!” Can also be found here on a memorial stone.

investment

After a steep ascent one passes the temple gate, which is designed here as a Niō gate ( 仁王 門 Niō-mon ; 1), and thus reaches the temple area surrounded by forest and tree-lined. On the right you have the bell tower ( 鐘楼 Shōrō ; 4), at the back left is the main hall ( 本 堂 Hondō ; 2) and next to it the hall for the worship of the temple founder, the Daishidō ( 大師 堂 ; 4). Both buildings have free-standing canopies.

Treasures

The two temple guards ( Niō ) from the gate come from the Kamakura period and are registered as an important cultural asset of Japan . Today they are sheltered. Other temple treasures include the temple bell ( 梵 鐘 Bonshō ) from 1308 and a disk bell ( 鰐 口Waniguchi ) from 1570. These two objects are registered as cultural assets of the prefecture.

photos

  • Beginning of the rise

  • Temple gate

  • Main hall

  • Daishidō

Remarks

  1. ↑ 木 が ら し に 岩 吹 き 尖 る 杉 間 か な Kogarashi ni / iwa fukitogaru / sugima kana .

literature

  • Kōchi-ken kotogakko kyoiku kenkyukai rekishi bukai (Ed.): Zenjibu-ji . In: Kōchi-ken no rekishi sampo. Yamakawa Shuppan, 2006, ISBN 978-4-634-24639-3 , pp. 99, 100.
  • Oguri, Doei: Kukai. Shikoku hachijuhachi kosho no arukikata. Chukei no Bunko, 2011, ISBN 978-4-8061-4067-2 .
  • Kon, Eizō (Ed.): Bashō Kushū . Shichosha, 1982. p. 258.

Web links

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

Coordinates: 33 ° 31 ′ 36.1 ″  N , 133 ° 36 ′ 41 ″  E

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