JÅmyÅ-ji
The Jomyo -ji (Japanese净 妙 寺or净 明 寺) is a Buddhist temple in the Japanese city of Kamakura ( Kanagawa Prefecture ). He belongs to the Kencho -ji branch of Rinzai shū and was part of the Gozan system.
History
The temple was built in 1188 by Ashikaga Yoshikane (足 利 义 兼; 1154 -1199? ), Then lord of Ashikaga clan built. He was initially part of the Shingon shū; his former name was Gokuraku -ji (极 楽 寺, not to be confused with the Gokuraku -ji, which was established in 1259 in Kamakura and only for Jōdo shū, then later to the Shingon Ritsu belonged ). First superintendent of the temple was the monk Taiko Gyōyū (退耕 行 勇, 1163-1241 ), a pupil of Myōan Eisai ( 1141-1215 ).
It was only under the rule of Ashikaga Yoshiuji (足 利 义 氏; 1189-1254 ) and the Vorsteherschaft the monk Geppo Ryonen (月 峰 了然/月 峰 了然), a student of Chinese Chan monk Lanxi Daolong (Chinese兰溪 道 隆, Pinyin Lanxi Dàolóng, W.-G. Lan -hsi Tao -long; jap兰 渓 道 隆, Rankei Dōryū; 1213-1278), the temple around 1258 officially converted to the Rinzai Zen. Between 1257 and 1259, the temple was also renamed Jomyo -ji, in honor of Ashikaga Sadauji (足 利 贞 氏; 1273-1331 ), father of Ashikaga Takauji, who financially supported the temple at that time and whose Buddhist name was Jomyo. Sadaujis tomb still stands today on the grounds of the temple, marked by a 1392 -built, stone Hōkyōin -tō (宝 箧 印 塔; a kind of pagoda ).
The Jomyo -ji rose in the Muromachi period quickly to great power on, but lost it just as quickly by military conflicts and natural disasters that destroyed his far-reaching buildings to a great extent.
Significant acting at the temple monks were, inter alia, the well-known as a poet Yakuō Both tokens (约 翁 徳 倹; 1244-1320 ), Koho Kennichi (高峰 显 日/高峰 顕 日; 1241-1316 ), Zhuxian Fanxian (Chinese竺 仙 梵 仙, Pinyin Zhuxian Fanxian; jap竺 仙 梵 仙, Jikusen Bonsen; ? 1292 -1348) and Tengan Eko (天 岸 慧 広).
Architecture
In the main hall, whose recent construction dates from 1756, there are several statues, including the go- Gohonzon of the temple, a statue of Shaka Nyorai from the 14th century. Other important sculptures in the hall are a taiko statue from the late Kamakura period, a Kannon statue and a Sambo Kōjin Statue (三宝 荒 神, a Japanese Buddhist cuisine deity ) from the Muromachi period. From the Edo period are statues of Fujiwara no Kamatari, Awashima Myojin (淡 岛 明 神, a Shinto deity for safe births and cure gynecological diseases), Garanjin (伽蓝 神) and Daruma ( the latter two are from the year 1731).
Another statue in the temple property, currently on loan to the possession of the Kamakura Museum, is a statue of Amida Nyorai from the 14th century.