JÅchi-ji
The Jochi -ji (Japanese净 智 寺) is a Buddhist temple in the district of Yama -no- uchi (山ノ内) the Japanese city of Kamakura ( Kanagawa Prefecture), not far from Kita- Kamakura Station. He belongs to the Engaku -ji branch of Rinzai shū and was part of the Gozan system.
History
The exact origins of Jochi -ji are unclear. As the official founder apply Hōjō Munemasa (北 条 宗 政; 1253-1281 ), third son of the fifth Shikken Hōjō Tokiyori ( 1227-1263 ), and Munemasas son, Hōjō Morotoki (北 条 师 时; 1275-1311 ). Since the temple was not finished until about the year of the death of Munemasa, is a participation of his wife, Hōjō Masamura (北 条 政 村; 1205-1273 ), and his younger brother, Hōjō Tokimune ( 1251-1284 ), the building owner and the opening likely.
As the first head, unusually, are three monks: Nanshu Kokai (南 洲 宏 海/南 州 宏 海, aka Shin'o Zenji ,真 応 禅师, -1303? ) Of this honor but because of his young age at the time to his Chinese masters Daxiu Zhengnian (大 休 正念, Dàxiū Zhèngniàn; jap大 休 正念, Daikyu Shōnen; 1214-1289 ) transferred, which in turn in favor of his own master Wuan Puning (兀 庵 普宁/兀 庵 普宁, Wuan Pǔníng ;兀 庵 普宁/兀 庵 普宁, Gottan Funei; ? -1276 ) wanted to do without, but died before the completion of the temple and previously had been returned to China in 1265 after Hōjō Tokiyori who had invited him to Japan, had passed away.
Architecture
From the size of the former Jochi -ji has remained little get. All the buildings are new buildings that were completed after the Great Kanto Earthquake. Nonetheless, these and other, older, artifacts are in the temple popular destinations for tourists.
Near the entrance is the Kanro -no- i (甘露ノ井), one of the ten wells of Kamakura (镰仓 十 井, jussei ).
An architectural singularity is the shoro - mon (钟楼 门), a two-story combination of gate tower and bell tower. On the upper floor, with windows in style Katōmado (火 灯 窓) are held, there is a bell from 1340.
Go Honzon are the wooden statues of the Buddhas of the three times (三世 仏, san -sei - butsu ): Amida Nyorai, Shaka Nyorai and Miroku Nyorai. The Shaka statue probably dates from 1370, the age of the other two will be back dated to the mid-15th century. They are all located in the Donge - the (昙华 殿) called Butsu - the (仏 殿), the main hall of the temple, where they are flanked on their left by a Bodhidharma statue and to the right by two statues of priests Nanshu and Daikyu. In the back of the hall is a statue of Kannon Bodhisattva, part of a Kannon pilgrimage in the region.
Other historically significant statues in the ownership of the temple are a statue of Bodhisattva Jizō from the late Kamakura period and a statue of Idaten (韦 駄 天) from the 14th century. These two are currently on loan to the possession of the Kamakura Museum (镰仓 国宝 馆, Kamakura kokuhokan ).
Near the Donge - the are two old trees: a Kōya -maki, which is supposedly the biggest tree in Kamakura, and a Hakuunboku (白云 木), whose flowers bloom in early May in only one week.
In the backyard of the temple gardens of flowers and bamboo, as well as caves, tombs are ( yagura ), in which some cenotaphs and stone statues, including one of the deity Ugajin (宇 贺 神) and one of Hoteison (布袋 尊).