Fuchu Five Mountains

Japanese: 府中五山 - ふちゅうござん

A collective name for five temples of the Myoshinji school of the Rinzai sect scattered around Tsutsujigasaki Mansion (Kofu City) built by Takeda Shintora. Shintora's son Harunobu looked up to the Rinzai sect Myoshinji monk Kishu Genpaku as his teacher, became a monk, took the name Shingen, and founded Chozenji for Genpaku. Shingen, who converted to Myoshinji Zen, moved and restored the four historic temples to the castle town and, together with Chozenji, called them the Fuchu Gozan, and gave the five temples special protection (during the Eiroku era). The four temples were originally Gozan school temples, but Shingen changed them to the Myoshinji school at this time, presumably because he wanted to cut ties with the Gozan school, which was under the control of the shogunate, and to use the Fuchu Gozan to control the temples within his domain.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

武田信虎が築いた躑躅崎（つつじがさき）館(甲府市)の周辺に散在する，臨済宗妙心寺派5ヵ寺の総称。信虎の子晴信は，臨済宗妙心寺派の僧岐秀元伯を師と仰いで出家し信玄と号したが，元伯のために長禅寺を開創した。妙心寺派の禅に帰依した信玄は，由緒ある4ヵ寺を城下に移転および復興して長禅寺と併せ府中五山と称し，5ヵ寺に特別な保護を加えるようになった(永禄年間)。4ヵ寺はもと五山派寺院であったが，この時信玄が妙心寺派に改めたのは，幕府の支配下にある五山派との関係を断つと共に，府中五山をして領内寺院の統制を意図したためと考えられる。

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