Enichiji Temple

Japanese: 恵（慧）日寺 - えにちじ

…After residing at Todaiji Temple, he left the capital at a young age and moved to the eastern provinces. He established Chuzenji Temple on Mount Tsukuba in Hitachi Province, and also founded Enichiji Temple (now Enichiji Temple) in Aizu, Mutsu Province. He hated the luxury of monks, so he himself wore simple clothing and ate simple food, and he also made an effort to educate the people, which led to him being highly revered and praised as a bodhisattva. …

From Bandai Town

...A town in Yama County, northwest of Fukushima Prefecture. Population 4,357 (1995). Located at the southwest foot of Mount Bandai, the town is served by the JR Ban'etsu West Line. The current town area is roughly the grounds of Enichiji Temple, which is said to have been established by Tokuichi in the early Heian period, and Otera, which developed as a temple town, is the central settlement. Enichiji Temple's land extended over four Aizu counties, and it was also called the Mount Koya of the Tohoku region, but all of the temple buildings and pagodas were lost due to repeated wars. The remains of Enichiji Temple are now designated as a national historic site.

From Mount Bandai

...However, as a training ground for Shugendo, it is spread across mountains including Mount Azuma, and Mount Bandai is thought to have occupied a part of it. Among them, what made Mount Bandai stand out was the existence of Enichiji Temple (now Enichiji Temple), which is said to have been founded by Tokuichi. It is said that at one time it boasted 3,800 sub-temples, 300 monks, several thousand warrior monks, and a temple estate of 180,000 koku. Its prosperity is known from the layout of the temple buildings and relics in the colored silk painting "Ejichi Temple Drawing" dated 1511 (Eisho 8). However, in 1589 (Tensho 17), it was burned down during Date Masamune's invasion of Aizu, and although it was rebuilt afterwards, it never regained its former prosperity. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Eiji Temple" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…東大寺に住した後，若くして都を去り，東国に移った。常陸国の筑波山に中禅寺を開き，また陸奥国の会津に慧日（えにち）寺(現，恵日寺)を創建した。僧侶の奢侈をにくんでみずから粗衣粗食し，民衆教化にも力を尽くして大いに尊ばれ，菩薩とたたえられた。…

【磐梯[町]】より

…福島県北西部，耶麻（やま）郡の町。人口4357(1995)。磐梯山の南西麓に位置し，JR磐越西線が通じる。平安初期に徳一によって開かれたと伝える慧日（えにち）寺の境内地が，ほぼ現在の町域であり，その門前町として発達した大寺（おおてら）が中心集落である。慧日寺の寺領は会津4郡に及び，東北の高野山とも称されていたが，たびたびの戦火によって，堂塔伽藍はことごとく失われた。現在，慧日寺跡は国の史跡に指定されている。…

【磐梯山】より

…ただし修験道の道場としては吾妻山も含む山々にまたがって展開されており，磐梯山はその一画を占めてきたとみられる。そのなかで磐梯山をきわだたせたのは，徳一の開基と伝える慧日（えにち）寺(現，恵日寺)の存在である。一時，子院3800坊，寺僧300人，僧兵数千人，寺領18万石の勢力を誇ったとも称され，その繁栄ぶりは永正8年(1511)銘のある絹本著色《恵日寺絵図》の伽藍配置や遺物などから知られるが，1589年(天正17)伊達政宗の会津侵攻によって炎上，その後再建されたものの，かつての隆盛を再現することはなかった。…

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