Online dictionary of geography and travels in Japan: temple

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Toshodaiji Temple

唐招提寺
alternative words: Toshodai-ji Temple, Toshodai Temple, Toshodaiji, Toshodai-ji, Toshodai ji
keywords: nara , temple
related topics: Nara Prefecture
related web sites: http://www.toshodaiji.jp , http://mt-isan.hp.infoseek.co.jp/heritage/nara/tosyodai.html , http://www.hikyaku.com/gallery/english/toshoda.htm
explanation: Saint Ganjin established a private school with chair in the 3rd year of Tenpyo-hoji Era (759). The name of Toshodai-ji originates from the fact that he came from Tang (The name of China at that period) in order to teach lectures of Buddha. Compared to official temples built by a state budget, whatever it may be modest, it is well known as the temple which keeps mostly the flavor of Tenpyo Period.

Tsukiji Honganji Temple

築地本願寺本願寺築地別院
alternative words: Tsukijihonganji temple, Tsukiji-honganji temple, Tsukiji honganji, Tsukiji-honganji
keywords: temple , tokyo
related topics: Nishi Honganji Temple , Tokyo Prefecture
related web sites: http://www.hongwanji.or.jp/tsukiji/index.htm
explanation: Temple built in 1617 at Tokyo as a "child temple" of Nishi Honganji of Kyoto. Initial building was at Asakusa district but moved to the actual place of Tsukiji (Tsukiji means "reclaimed land") after being burned down by a great fire of 1657. After a destruction by the "Great Earthquake of Kanto" in 1923, it was rebuilt in 1934 with a flavor of Indian style.

Yakushiji Temple

薬師寺
alternative words: Yakushi-ji Temple, Yakushi Temple, Yakushiji, Yakushi-ji, Yakushi ji
keywords: nara , temple , world heritage
related topics: Nara Prefecture
related web sites: http://www.nara-yakushiji.com , http://www.hikyaku.com/gallery/english/yakusji.htm
explanation: In the 9th year of Emperor Tenmu's reign (680), in order to pray for the recovery of his wife (later Empress Jito) from an illness, he began to construct Yakushiji Temple. After his death, she continued the work of her husband and completed it in the 11th year of her reign (697). At first, the temple was located in Fujiwara-kyo, the capital at that period, then moved to the actual place with other temples after Nara became the capital in the 3rd year of Wado era (710).

Zenkoji Temple

善光寺
alternative words: Zenko-ji Temple, Zenkoji, Zenko-ji, Zenko ji, Zenkouji Temple, Zenkou-ji Temple, Zenkouji, Zenkou-ji, Zenkou ji
keywords: nagano , temple
related topics: Nagano City
related web sites: http://www.m-shinano.com/omairi/omairi.htm , http://www.hikyaku.com/nagano/nagshig.htm
explanation: One of the oldest and the most prestigious Buddhist temples in Japan. During the reign of Emperor Kinme in 538, Korea offered to Japan a statue of Buddha, also called Amida-nyorai. Afterwards, when a dispute between anti and pro Buddhism clans broke out, it was thrown away in a river of Osaka. According to a legend, when an inhabitant of Nagano, Honda Yoshimitsu, passed near by, he would have been stopped by an appeal of the statue which incited him to bring it to his home at Nagano in 602.

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