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*''Established: [[645]]''
*''Established: [[645]]''
*''Other Names'': 金龍山 ''(Kinryuuzan)''
*''Other Names'': 金龍山 ''(Kinryuuzan)'', 浅草寺 ''(Asakusa-dera)'', 浅草観音 ''(Asakusa Kannon)''
*''Japanese'': 浅草寺 ''(Sensou-ji)''
*''Japanese'': 浅草寺 ''(Sensou-ji)''
Sensô-ji is the oldest Buddhist temple in [[Tokyo]]. Originally founded in XX, it forms the center of the [[Asakusa]] district, and served to defend the shogunal capital of [[Edo]] (and now Tokyo) from the unlucky northeastern direction.
Sensô-ji is the oldest Buddhist temple in [[Tokyo]]. Originally founded in XX, it forms the center of the [[Asakusa]] district, and served to defend the shogunal capital of [[Edo]] (and now Tokyo) from the unlucky northeastern direction. It formerly belonged to the [[Tendai]] sect of Buddhism, but is today the head temple of its own branch of [[Kannon|Shôkannon]] Buddhism.
==History==
==History==
The temple is said to have been founded after peasants discovered a statue of the [[bodhisattva]] [[Kannon]] floating in the [[Sumidagawa]] (Sumida River), and built a temple to enshrine it.
The temple is said to have been founded after peasants discovered a statue of the [[bodhisattva]] [[Kannon]] floating in the [[Sumidagawa]] (Sumida River), and built a temple to enshrine it.
Sensô-ji was restored and re-established in the [[Heian period]] by [[Ennin]], and in the [[Edo period]] became a tutelary temple of the [[Tokugawa clan]].
==Grounds==
==Grounds==
==References==
==References==
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%B5%85%E8%8D%89%E5%AF%BA Sensôji]." Digital Daijisen. Shogakukan.
[[Category:Temples]]
[[Category:Temples]]