Enkoji Temple

Japanese: 円光寺 - えんこうじ

A temple of the Nanzenji school of the Rinzai sect in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City. Its mountain name is Zuiganzan. In 1601 (6th year of the Keicho era), Tokugawa Ieyasu invited the Zen monk Genkitsu Kanshitsu from the Ashikaga School to Fushimi, where he built a school called Enkoji. This marked the founding of the temple, and Ieyasu, who loved learning, donated 100,000 woodblock type characters, while Genkitsu published Japanese and Chinese classics. These are called the Keicho type edition, Fushimi edition, and Enkoji edition, and the temple played a noteworthy role in the history of Japanese publishing. The temple was later moved to its current location, and is now a nunnery. [Fujii Manabu]

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

京都市左京区にある臨済宗南禅寺派の寺。山号は瑞巌山。1601年(慶長6)徳川家康は足利学校から禅僧の閑室元佶（かんしつげんきつ）を伏見に招き，円光寺と号する学校を建てた。これが当寺の開創で，好学の家康は木活字10万を寄せ，元佶は和漢の典籍の出版にあたった。これを慶長活字本，伏見版，円光寺版といい，当寺は日本の出版史上で特筆すべき役割を果たした。のち寺は現在の地に移り，現在は尼寺である。【藤井学】

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