ShÅkoku-ji
The Shokoku -ji (traditional notation :相 国寺reformed spelling :相 国寺) correctly Shokoku jōten zen -ji (相 国 承天 禅寺), is a Buddhist temple in the district of the city Kamigyo Kyoto. He is one of the seven main temple of the Rinzai shū and as such has more than 100 branch temples, including the Kinkaku -ji and Ginkaku -ji.
History
The construction was started in October 1383 at the request of Go- Komatsu - Tenno from Sadaijin and Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu in 1392 and completed. Yoshimitsu chose a site east of his residence, the " Hana no gosho ". The temple was in 1386 with the selection of "Five Zen Temple " Kyoto ( Gozan ) to where it holds the second place.
Had the Yoshimitsu in 1367 ordained, first superintendent in December 1382 was de facto the Zen master Shun'oku Myōha ( 1311-1388春 屋 妙 葩). However Myōha had this honor posthumously nominally and give his deceased uncle Musō Soseki. Myōha resigned in 1386, his successor was Kūkoku myōō ( 1328-1407 ).
1393 a five-storey pagoda was built of 70 m height, but the following year they burned the temple complex from. 1399 was completed on a 100 -meter-high Great Pagoda, Yorimitsu was present at the inauguration. But as well as these burnt down soon, namely in 1403 by a lightning strike, was abandoned on a reconstruction.
During the Ōnin Civil War, the temple was destroyed, then again in 1551, but his priests endeavored to continue to preserve the Zen culture. 1584 came Saisho Shodai (西 笑 承兑; 1548-1608 ) to the monks and set out to rebuild deserves. Toyotomi Hideyori in 1605 donated a new main building, which Hatto. Tokugawa Ieyasu founded in 1609 the main gate ( Sammon ) and the Go- Mizunoo - tennō leaving a building of his palace as grave hall of the temple 's founder ( Kaisantō ). In the Temmei - major fire in 1788 the plant burned to the Hatto, the bathhouse and the Chokushi gate from another time. A number of buildings were rebuilt in 1804-18, but not in a temple, the Garan (伽蓝) in Zen style, belonging to Buddha hall, not even the Sammon.
After the Meiji Restoration, the temple lost support. The present system comprises only one-fifth of the old area.
Temple
For the entire plant including the nearby small ( on the plan not marked ) temples and hermitages (塔 头, tatchū ) to do so. In the cemetery there are the graves of Fujiwara no Sadaie, Ashikaga Yoshimasa and others. On a side road the samurai of the Satsuma -han are buried who died in the Hagurigomon incident in 1864 killed.
Other buildings
- The Tatchū heard the Daitsu - in (大通 院), which also includes a zazen space (座 禅堂, zazendō ), which here Enbutsjō (选 仏 场).
- Two small shrines are located between the Bell Tower and the Kaisantō.
Shokoku -ji and the Arts
The monk - painter Jōsetsu and Shubun the temple justified the monochrome ink painting (水墨画, suibokuga ) in Japan. There then followed the students Sesshū, Sotan and others. The painter Itō Yakuchū worked there in the 18th century and is also buried there. Many artworks of the temple are in a private museum to visit the Jōtenkaku Bijutsukan. As a national treasure, a font set of Mugaku Absorbed (无 学 祖 元, 1226-1286 ) is registered. Is known of the Zen series " The ox and his herdsman ," whose imaging Shubun is attributed.
Gallery
From the series of 10 images Ochs
Joints ( Itō Yakuchū )
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