is a
Buddhist
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temple of the
Ji sect in
Matsuyama, Ehime
270px, Matsuyama City Hall
270px, Ehime Prefectural Capital Building
is the capital city of Ehime Prefecture on the island of Shikoku in Japan and also Shikoku's largest city. , the city had an estimated population of 505,948 in 243541 house ...
,
Japan. It is famed as the birthplace of the Buddhist sage
Ippen
was a Japanese Buddhist itinerant preacher (''hijiri'') who founded the branch of Pure Land Buddhism.
Life
Ippen was born at Hōgon-ji, a temple in Iyo Province (modern Ehime Prefecture) on the island of Shikoku. He was originally named . He fi ...
, who founded the Ji (time) sect as an offshoot of the
Jōdo (
Pure Land Buddhism
Pure Land Buddhism (; ja, 浄土仏教, translit=Jōdo bukkyō; , also referred to as Amidism in English,) is a broad branch of Mahayana Buddhism focused on achieving rebirth in a Buddha's Buddha-field or Pure Land. It is one of the most widel ...
) sect in 1276.
History
According to temple records, the temple was founded in 668 by an ancestor of the
Kōno clan Kōno, Kono or Kouno (written: 河野, 幸野, 高野 or 甲野) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Kōno Bairei (1844–1895), Japanese painter, book illustrator and art teacher
* Kōno Hironaka (1849–1923), Japane ...
at the behest of the abdicated
Empress Saimei
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.
Ippen
was a Japanese Buddhist itinerant preacher (''hijiri'') who founded the branch of Pure Land Buddhism.
Life
Ippen was born at Hōgon-ji, a temple in Iyo Province (modern Ehime Prefecture) on the island of Shikoku. He was originally named . He fi ...
was born at the temple in what was then
Iyo province
was a province of Japan in the area of northwestern Shikoku. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Tosa''" in . Iyo bordered on Sanuki Province to the northeast, Awa to the east, and Tosa to the south. Its abbreviated form name was . In te ...
in 1239. As a child he was known as Shōjomaru. In the year 1248, his mother died, and he became a monk with the name Zuien. In 1251 he left Iyo to study under
Shōdatsu in
Dazaifu. He returned to Iyo in 1263 at the time of his father's death, and married. In 1271, he vowed to give up his domestic life. On a visit to
Kumano Shrine
A is a type of Shinto shrine which enshrines the three Kumano mountains: Hongū, Shingū, and Nachi [].Encyclopedia of ShintoKumano Shinkō accessed on October 6, 2008 There are more than 3,000 Kumano shrines in Japan, and each has received its k ...
in 1274, Ippen experienced a revelation and "spent the remaining sixteen years of his life in constant travel throughout Japan." "The term ''ippen'' 一遍 is a common word meaning 'once,' but its second element (''-pen, hen'') also has the meaning of 'everywhere' or 'all pervading.'"
In 1292, three years after Ippen's death, Hōgon-ji was rededicated as a temple of the Ji sect.
On August 10, 2013, the main temple building and priest's quarters were destroyed by fire.
Buildings and grounds
Besides the
main hall, the temple grounds included a
rock garden
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and several
kuhi
Kuhi is a town and a tehsil in the Umred subdivision of the Nagpur district in Nagpur, India. Kuhi is located 40 km from Nagpur District.Kuhi is two town areas. One is Kuhi and other is Bhojapur. It comes under the revenue division of Berar regi ...
(
haiku
is a type of short form poetry originally from Japan. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases that contain a ''kireji'', or "cutting word", 17 ''On (Japanese prosody), on'' (phonetic units similar to syllables) in a 5, 7, 5 pattern, ...
stones) and other stone monuments.
The
kuhi
Kuhi is a town and a tehsil in the Umred subdivision of the Nagpur district in Nagpur, India. Kuhi is located 40 km from Nagpur District.Kuhi is two town areas. One is Kuhi and other is Bhojapur. It comes under the revenue division of Berar regi ...
include a
haiku
is a type of short form poetry originally from Japan. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases that contain a ''kireji'', or "cutting word", 17 ''On (Japanese prosody), on'' (phonetic units similar to syllables) in a 5, 7, 5 pattern, ...
by
Matsuyama
270px, Matsuyama City Hall
270px, Ehime Prefectural Capital Building
is the capital city of Ehime Prefecture on the island of Shikoku in Japan and also Shikoku's largest city. , the city had an estimated population of 505,948 in 243541 househ ...
poet
Masaoka Shiki
, pen-name of Masaoka Noboru (正岡 升), was a Japanese poet, author, and literary critic in Meiji period Japan. Shiki is regarded as a major figure in the development of modern haiku poetry, credited with writing nearly 20,000 stanzas during ...
:
:色里や十歩はなれて秋の風(正岡子規)
::''irozato ya jippa hanarete aki no kaze''
:red-light district
:only ten steps away
:autumn wind
Other
kuhi
Kuhi is a town and a tehsil in the Umred subdivision of the Nagpur district in Nagpur, India. Kuhi is located 40 km from Nagpur District.Kuhi is two town areas. One is Kuhi and other is Bhojapur. It comes under the revenue division of Berar regi ...
feature haiku by
Mokichi Saitō
was a Japanese poet of the Taishō period, a member of the Araragi school of tanka, and a psychiatrist.
The psychiatrist Shigeta Saitō ( ''Japanese Wikipedia article'') is his first son, the novelist Morio Kita is his second son and the essa ...
and
Kawada Jun
was a Japanese tanka poet and entrepreneur active during the Shōwa period of Japan.
Biography
Kawada was born in the plebeian Asakusa district of Tokyo as the third son of noted Chinese literature scholar Kawada Oko. He graduated from the ...
.
Treasures
The temple's most noted treasure, a 114 centimeter high (mid
Muromachi Period
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) (
Important Cultural Property),
dating from mid-
Muromachi period
The is a division of Japanese history running from approximately 1336 to 1573. The period marks the governance of the Muromachi or Ashikaga shogunate (''Muromachi bakufu'' or ''Ashikaga bakufu''), which was officially established in 1338 by ...
(14th-16th centuries) was reportedly lost in the fire on August 10, 2013.
Notes
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