Joshoji Temple

Japanese: 常照寺 - じょうしょうじ

A temple of the Tenryuji school of the Rinzai sect of Buddhism in Keihoku-cho, Kitakuwada-gun, Kyoto Prefecture. It is called Daiyuzan and commonly known as Joshoko-ji Temple. It was founded by the retired Emperor Kogon. Amid the complicated political situation during the civil war between the Northern and Southern Courts, Emperor Kogon, the first emperor of the Northern Court, was toyed with by a strange fate. In 1352 (Shohei 7, Bunwa 1) he became a monk and took the name Katsumitsu Munen Osho while in the temporary palace of the Southern Court Emperor Go-Murakami, who had been captured. A few years later, the retired emperor was pardoned and returned to Kyoto, where he studied under Muso Kokushi, and soon set out on a pilgrimage around the country accompanied by one attendant monk. He entered Tanbayama Kokusho, established a temple, and decided to make it his home.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

京都府北桑田郡京北町にある臨済宗天竜寺派の寺。大雄山と号する。通称常照皇（じようしようこう）寺。光厳上皇の開基。南北朝内乱期の複雑な政局のなかで，数奇な運命にもてあそばれた北朝初代の光厳天皇は，捕らえられていた南朝後村上天皇の吉野の行宮で1352年(正平7∥文和1)落飾，勝光智･無範和尚と号した。その数年後，上皇は許されて帰洛したが，夢窓国師に師事し，ほどなく従僧1人を供に諸国行脚の旅に出た。丹波山国荘に入って一寺を開き，安住の地と定めた。

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