is a
Rinzai Buddhist
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temple
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in
Himeji,
Hyōgo Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Hyōgo Prefecture has a population of 5,469,762 () and a geographic area of . Hyōgo Prefecture borders Kyoto Prefecture to the east, Osaka Prefecture to th ...
(formerly
Harima province).
History
With the patronage of the
Akamatsu clan,
Sesson Yūbai was able to become the founder of a number of provincial
Buddhist temple
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monasteries, including Hōrin-ji in Harima.
[Hall, John Whitney. (1999)]
''The Cambridge History of Japan,'' pp. 600-603.
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Hōrin-ji was ranked among the provincial '' jissatsu'' by the Muromachi shogunate,[Hall]
p. 602.
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Prominent among Yūbai's followers were Akamatsu Norimura (1277-1350) and his son Akamatsu Norisuke (1314-1371).
Notes
References
* Hall
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, John Whitney. (1999). ''The Cambridge History of Japan: Medieval Japan,'' Vol. 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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OCLC 165440083
Buddhist temples in Himeji
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