Kenchū-ji (建中寺) is a
Jōdo-shū
Jōdo-shū (浄土宗, "The Pure Land School"), is a Japanese branch of Pure Land Buddhism derived from the teachings of the Kamakura era monk Hōnen (1133–1212). The school is traditionally considered as having been established in 1175 and i ...
Buddhist temple in Tsutsui,
Higashi-ku, Nagoya, central Japan. Starting in the
Edo period
The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...
, the mausoleums of the lords of the
Owari Domain
The Owari-Han, also known as the Owari Domain, was a significant feudal domain in Tokugawa shogunate, Japan during the Edo period. Situated in the western region of what is now Aichi Prefecture, it covered portions of Owari Province, Owari, Mino ...
were located there, making it the ''
Bodaiji
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'' of the
Owari Tokugawa family.
The present main hall of the
Nagoya Tōshō-gū was a mausoleum for Lord
Tokugawa Yoshinao's consort Haruhime (春姫), which used to be located at Kenchū-ji, and was moved to the site in 1953 as a replacement. It is a designated cultural property of Aichi prefecture.
See also
*
Jōkō-ji (Seto)
References
External links
* http://www.kenchuji.com/
1651 establishments in Japan
Buddhist temples in Nagoya
Owari Tokugawa family
Pure Land temples
Aichi Prefecture designated tangible cultural property
Jōdo-shū temples
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