Ikegami Honmon-ji

Ikegami Honmon -ji (Japanese池上 本 门寺) is a Buddhist temple in Ōta, Tokyo, and among other things, also the administrative center of the Nichiren shū. The temple, founded by Nichiro (Japanese日 朗, * 1245, † 1320) was built on the place where the monk and scholar died Nichiren and was cremated.

In March of 1945, the assets of the temple were badly damaged during an air raid, but most of the buildings have been reconstructed and are now officially the Important cultural treasures of Japan. These include, in addition to the five-story pagoda built around 1608, which was built in 1784 for the storage of religious writings, Kyozo, the Hoto, built in 1781, stands on the site where the body was cremated Nichiren.

Until the mid-20th century, the temple was still a good deal even far away from Tokyo and so quoted the British japanologist Basil Hall Chamberlain and WB Mason still in 1907 that the temple exquisitely located and through the wonderful woodworking is a good destination in the vicinity of Tokyo. Meanwhile, however, the temple is part of belonging to the Tokyo city district Ōta.

In the region between the Ikegami station and the temple grounds takes place every year on 13 October in memory of the death of Nichiren, the so-called Oeshiki hard place which attracts many visitors.