Manman-ji
is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen, located in the city of Matsudo in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Its main image is a statue of Amida Nyōrai. History The temple was built by Chiba Yoritane in 1256, originally as a Shingon Buddhist temple named Dainichi-ji, with the assistance of the famed prelate Ninshō, and was located in what is now Inage-ku, Chiba. In the Muromachi period, it was converted to the Rinzai school by Chiba Mitsutane (1360-1426) and was renamed Manman-ji, taking one '' kanji'' from the name of the Kamakura kubō, Ashikaga Ujimitsu. Between 1532 and 1555 Takagi Tanetatsu, a regional leader, invited the priest Kinho from Daitoku-ji in Kyoto to the region. Over the next several years the area gained many adherents to the Rinzai school, and Manman-ji was related to its present location in 1537. Most of the temple was destroyed by a fire in 1908, and the Hondō was only reconstructed in 1987. Manman-ji preserved a pair of K ...
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Matsudo, Chiba
260px, Matsudo City Hall is a city in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 498,575 in 242,981 households and a population density of 8100 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Geography Matsudo is located in the far northwestern corner of Chiba Prefecture, about 20 to 30 kilometers from the prefectural capital at Chiba and 10 to 20 kilometers from downtown Tokyo. The western border of the city is the Edo River, which flows from north to south, and most of the city is on an alluvial plain with an elevation of only around four meters above sea level, with the eastern end rising to 20 to 30 meters on the Shimōsa Plateau. The city has the approximate dimensions of 11.4 kilometers from east-to-west and 11.6 kilometers from north-to-south. Neighboring municipalities Chiba Prefecture * Ichikawa *Kashiwa *Nagareyama *Kamagaya Saitama Prefecture * Misato Tokyo * Edogawa *Katsushika Climate Matsudo has a Humid subtropical climate (Köppen ''Cfa' ...
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