Tokugen-in
Tokugen-in | |
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Religion | |
Affiliation | Buddhist |
Deity | Sho-Kannon Bosatsu |
Rite | Tendai |
Location | |
Location | 874 Shinmachi, Matsusaka, Mie 515-0075 |
Country | Japan |
Geographic coordinates | 35°20′43″N 136°23′15″E / 35.34528°N 136.38750°E |
Architecture | |
Founder | Kyōgoku Ujinobu |
Completed | 1283 |
Website | |
Official website | |
Tokugen-in (
History
[edit]Tokugen-in is also known as Seiryū-ji (
In 1672, the 20th hereditary chieftain, Kyōgoku Taketoyo, the daimyō of Marugame Domain in Sanuki Province, successful petitioned the Tokugawa shogunate for permission to exchange two villages from his holdings in Harima Province with two villages in Ōmi Province surrounding this temple, which he then reconstructed. The temple's name was formally changed to "Tokugen-in" after the posthumous name of his father, Kyōgoku Takakazu. A three-story Pagoda was constructed, and he gathered the tombstones of his ancestors from various locations and organized them into one place. [4]
This three-storied pagoda was designated as a Tangible Cultural Property of Shiga Prefecture in 1973. The tombs consist of two rows of hōkyōintō arranged in two rows. That of Kyōgoku Ujinobu has a height of 278 cm. The upper row consists of eighteen tombs from the first to the 18th generation. The lower row consists of 14 tombs of the 15th generation onwards, with the sizes of the monuments varying depending on the rise and fall in the fortunes of the clan, and form a valuable resource in the study of how the hōkyōintō monuments evolved from the Kamakura period through the end of the Edo period.
The temple has a Japanese garden in a typical style of the early Edo period, and is a Shiga Prefectural Place of Scenic Beauty.[4]
Tokugen-in is a 30-minute walk from the JR Central Kashiwabara Station or ten minutes by car from Ōmi-Nagaoka Station.[4]
Gallery
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Three-story Pagoda
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Kyōgoku cemetery
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Tokugen-in gardens
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "
清滝 寺 京極 家 墓所 " (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved August 20, 2020. - ^ Papinot, Jacques. (2003). Nobiliare du Japon, pp. 27–28.
- ^ a b Iwao, Seiichi et al. (2002). Dictionnaire historique du Japon, p. 1704.
- ^ a b c Isomura, Yukio; Sakai, Hideya (2012). (
国 指定 史跡 事典 ) National Historic Site Encyclopedia.学生 社 . ISBN 978-4311750403.(in Japanese)
External links
[edit]- Maibara city home page (in Japanese)
- Shiga-Biwako Tourist Information page (in Japanese)