Jufuku-ji
The Jufuku -ji (Japanese寿 福寺) is a Buddhist temple of the Kencho -ji branch of Rinzai shū in the district Ōgigayatsu (扇ヶ谷) the Japanese city of Kamakura ( Kanagawa Prefecture) and belonged to the Japanese Middle Ages to the Gozan system.
History
The temple was originally built in 1200 to commemorate the year of the late first Kamakura shogun Minamoto - no Yoritomo ( 1147-1199 ) on the site of the residence of his father, Minamoto no Yoshitomo ( 1123-1160 ), by his widow Hōjō Masako ( 1156-1225) built. As the first head of Eisai (1141-1215) was used. Although Eisai was a Zen master in the first place, was in the early years primarily a mixed form of esoteric Buddhism (密 教, Mikkyo ) and zen on Jufuku -ji practiced, so commonly the only built in 1253 Kencho -ji was the first pure Zen temple Kamakura applies.
Eisai's successor at Jufuku -ji was Taiko Gyōyū (退耕 行 勇, 1163-1241 ), formerly a priest at the Shinto shrine Tsurugaoka Hachiman- gū. Gyōyūs successor was Jyakuan Josho (寂 庵 上 昭; 1229-1316 ).
Other famous Zen master who worked on Jufuku -ji, are, inter alia, Enni Ben'en (1202-1280), who was invited in 1257 by Hōjō Tokiyori there, and Lanxi Daolong ( 1213-1278 ).
Structures
Main attractions of the temple are the statues in the last 1751-1763 rebuilt main hall (本 堂, Hondo ), which is open to the public but not. Go honzon is a 2.95 meter high statue called Kago - Shaka (笼 釈 迦; "basket - Śākyamuni ", a special production process because of), which is flanked by two ( equal high ) statues of Bodhisattvas Monju and Fugen. Other statues show, inter alia, an eleven-member Kan'non, Bodhidharma, Eisai and the Chinese Chan master Zhaozhou Congshen (Chinese赵州 从 谂, Pinyin Zhaozhou Cóngshěn, W.-G. Chao -chou Tsung -shen; jap Joshu Jushin; 778-897 ).
The cemetery on the temple grounds is known for tombs of some famous personalities. There are, inter alia, to originally created in the late Kamakura period and five-story stupas (五 轮 塔, gorintō ) equipped caves Tombs ( yagura ) for Hōjō Masako and her son, the third Kamakura shogun, Minamoto no Sanetomo ( 1192-1219 ). However, these are only cenotaphs. To actually buried in the cemetery people are the haiku poet Takahama Kyoshi (高 浜 虚 子, 1874-1959 ), the writer Osaragi Jiro (大佛 次郎; 1897-1973 ) and the politician and diplomat Munemitsu Mutsu (陆 奥 宗 光, 1844-1897 ).