Taisekiji Temple

The head temple of the Nichiren Shoshu sect is located in Kamijo, Fujinomiya City, Shizuoka Prefecture. The mountain name is Dai-Nichiren-Renge-san. One of the six senior disciples of Nichiren, Byakuren Ajari Nikko, served at the ancestral temple in Minobu for three years after Nichiren's death. However, he remonstrated with the lord of Minobu, Nanbu Sanenaga, for his misconduct, and came into conflict with him. In 1288 (Shoo 1), he left Minobu and took up residence in the Buddhist temple of Nanjo Tokimitsu, the lord of Ueno-go, Fuji County, Suruga Province (Shizuoka Prefecture). In 1290, under the patronage of the same clan, a temple was founded in Oishigahara in the north, and was named Taisekiji after the local place. During the Edo period, the temple was completed with the conversion of the 6th Shogun Tokugawa Ienobu's Muroten Eiin and others, and came to have a land area of ​​over 66 koku. It was one of the eight temples of the Komon school, but in 1900 (Meiji 33) it separated and took on the name Fuji school, and in 1913 it was renamed Nichiren Shoshu. The temple's treasures include letters by Nichiren addressed to the Nanjo clan, and calligraphy by successive monks.

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静岡県富士宮市上条にある日蓮正宗(にちれんしょうしゅう)の総本山。山号は大日蓮華(れんげ)山。日蓮六上足の一人白蓮阿闍梨(あじゃり)日興(にっこう)は、日蓮没後3か年間を身延(みのぶ)の祖廟(そびょう)に仕えたが、身延の地頭(じとう)南部実長(さねなが)の非行を諫(いさ)めて対立し、1288年（正応1）身延を去って駿河(するが)国（静岡県）富士郡上野郷(うえのごう)の地頭南条時光の持仏堂に拠(よ)った。1290年同氏の外護(げご)で北方の大石ヶ原に一寺を創建し、地名にちなんで大石寺(おおいしでら)と名づけたのが本寺の起源で、江戸時代に6代将軍徳川家宣(いえのぶ)の室天英院らの帰依(きえ)により伽藍(がらん)が完備し、66石余の寺領を有するに至った。興門派八本山の一つであったが、1900年（明治33）分離して富士派を称し、さらに1913年日蓮正宗と改称した。寺宝に南条氏あての日蓮書簡、歴代上人(しょうにん)の遺墨など多数を蔵する。

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