Hokongoin Temple

This is a Ritsu sect temple located in Hanazono Oginocho, Ukyo Ward, Kyoto City. It is called Goiyama. The principal image is Amida Nyorai. In the early Heian period, the mountain villa of the Minister of the Right, Kiyohara Natsuno, was turned into a temple after his death, and it was called Sokyu-ji and Tenan-ji. At the end of the Heian period, Taikenmon-in Shoshi, the Empress of Emperor Toba, restored it as Hokongo-in. The vast temple grounds have a beautiful garden and numerous buildings, and many visitors, including Saigyo, have been visited, and many waka poems have been composed here. It then fell into disrepair, but was restored in the Kamakura period by Engaku of Toshodaiji Temple, who spread the teachings of Yuzu Nembutsu, and in 1617 (Genwa 3), Shochin of Sennyuji Temple rebuilt it and made it a temple of learning for the four sects of Shingon, Tendai, Zen, and Jodo. It is home to important cultural properties such as the national treasure, the seated Amida Nyorai statue (1130, made by Inkaku), a wooden seated eleven-headed Kannon statue in a cabinet, and a lotus-style incense burner.

[Tamura Kosuke]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

京都市右京区花園扇野(はなぞのおうぎの)町にある律宗の寺。五位山と号する。本尊阿弥陀如来(あみだにょらい)。平安初期、右大臣清原夏野(きよはらのなつの)の山荘の地を、死後寺とし、双丘寺(そうきゅうじ)、天安寺(てんあんじ)と称された。平安時代末、鳥羽(とば)上皇の中宮待賢門院璋子(たいけんもんいんしょうし)が法金剛院として復興。広大な寺地にはりっぱな庭園をもち、数多くの堂舎が建ち並び、西行(さいぎょう)など訪問者も多く、多くの和歌が詠まれている。その後荒廃したが、鎌倉時代に唐招提寺(とうしょうだいじ)の円覚(えんがく)が復興、融通念仏を広め、1617年（元和3）泉涌寺(せんにゅうじ)の照珍が再建、真言(しんごん)・天台・禅・浄土四宗兼学の寺とされた。国宝の本尊阿弥陀如来坐像(ざぞう)（1130、院覚作）をはじめ、厨子(ずし)入木造十一面観音坐像、蓮華(れんげ)式香炉(こうろ)など国の重要文化財がある。

［田村晃祐］

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