Hanjusanmaiin Temple

This Tendai sect temple (a branch of Enryaku-ji Temple) is located in Hanshuin-mae-machi, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto City. It is called Shigetsu-san and is abbreviated as Hanshuin. The principal image is Amida Nyorai. It is said that Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado (reigned 1464-1500) stayed there as a child and after ascending to the throne, he built a temple in Fushimi-den, where he received the bodhisattva precepts from the 13th head priest of Nison-in, Enjie-atsu Zenku, and made it a temple of imperial prayer. It is a training center for the study of the four sects of Tendai, Shingon, Ritsu, and Zen (or Jodo). In 1595 (4th year of Bunroku), Toyotomi Hideyoshi moved it from under Fushimi Castle to its current location. During the Edo period, Shuinji Temple had a land area of ​​150 koku. It served as the head priest of Nison-in Temple for many generations. It housed the memorial tablets of successive emperors, but in the Meiji period, these were moved to Sennyuji Temple. The wooden Amida Nyorai statue, the temple's main image, is said to have been made by Jikaku Daishi, and both the wooden seated statue of Acala are from the Heian period and are designated as Important Cultural Properties of Japan. It also contains the graves of the mothers of Emperors Gokashiwabara, Gotsuchimikado, and Gonara.

[Tamura Kosuke]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

京都市上京(かみぎょう)区般舟院前町にある天台宗（延暦寺(えんりゃくじ)末）の寺。指月(しげつ)山と号する。略称般舟院。本尊は阿弥陀如来(あみだにょらい)。後土御門(ごつちみかど)天皇（在位1464～1500）が幼時滞在し、即位後、二尊院の第13代円慈恵篤上人善空(しょうにんぜんくう)に菩薩戒(ぼさつかい)を受けたところである伏見(ふしみ)殿に仏閣を建立して、勅願寺としたと伝える。天台・真言(しんごん)・律・禅（または浄土）の四宗兼学の道場。1595年（文禄4）豊臣(とよとみ)秀吉が伏見城下から現在地へ移転させた。江戸時代は朱印寺領150石。歴代二尊院住持の兼務であった。歴代天皇の位牌(いはい)を安置したが、明治時代に泉涌寺(せんにゅうじ)に移された。本尊木造阿弥陀如来像は慈覚大師作と伝え、木造不動明王坐像(ざぞう)とともに平安時代の作で国重要文化財に指定されている。後柏原(ごかしわばら)・後土御門・後奈良(ごなら)天皇の各母后の墓などがある。

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