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[[File:Fukushoji.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Gravestones and surrounding stone lanterns at Fukushô-ji]]

[[File:Fukushoji.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Gravestones and surrounding stone lanterns at Fukushô-ji]]

*''Established: [[1394]], [[Sekioku Shinryo|Sekioku Shinryô]]''

*''Established: [[1394]], [[Sekioku Shinryo|Sekioku Shinryô]]''

*''Other Names'': 玉龍山 ''(Gyokuryuuzan)''

*''Other Names'': 玉龍山 ''(Gyokuryuuzan)''

*''Japanese'': 福昌寺 ''(Fukushou-ji)''

*''Japanese'': 福昌寺 ''(Fukushou-ji)''

Fukushô-ji was a [[Soto Zen|Sôtô Zen]] temple in [[Kagoshima]], which served as the family temple (''[[bodaiji]]'') for the [[Shimazu clan]]. Though the temple is no longer in operation, the Shimazu clan cemetery which houses the graves of numerous generations of clan heads continues to be maintained on the site. Gyokuryû Middle School & High School now stands on the former site of the Fukushô-ji temple buildings.

Fukushô-ji was a [[Soto Zen|Sôtô Zen]] temple in [[Kagoshima]], which served as the family temple (''[[bodaiji]]'') for the [[Shimazu clan]]. At its height, it was the largest temple in [[Satsuma han|Satsuma domain]], with some 1500 monks in residence.

The temple was established in [[1394]] when [[Shimazu Motohisa]] invited the [[Zen]] priest [[Sekioku Shinryo|Sekioku Shinryô]] to Kagoshima to establish a ''bodaiji'' for the Shimazu clan. It later became one of the three largest head temples for monk registrars (僧録, ''sôroku'') in the country, overseeing all the Buddhist monks in southern Kyushu, as well as a ''chokuganjo'', a prayer hall that could be used by the [[Emperor]]. Fukushô-ji branch temples were established in numerous locations across Kyushu, Shikoku, and the [[Chugoku region|Chûgoku region]].

A branch temple of [[Soji-ji|Shogakuzan Sôji-ji]] in [[Noto province]],<ref>Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 80.</ref> it was one of the Three Temples of Kagoshima (''mikedera'', 三ヶ寺), along with [[Jokomyo-ji (Kagoshima)|Jôkômyô-ji]] and [[Dairyu-ji|Dairyû-ji]].<ref>Plaques on-site in Kanmachi, Kagoshima.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/15066879717/sizes/h/]</ref>

Fukushô-ji was abolished in the early [[Meiji period]], as part of the ''[[haibutsu kishaku]]'' anti-Buddhist campaigns of that time.

 

 

Fukushô-ji was abolished in [[1869]], as part of the ''[[haibutsu kishaku]]'' anti-Buddhist campaigns of the early [[Meiji period]]. The following year, some 375 [[Christians]] fleeing persecution by the [[Meiji government]] in [[Nagasaki]] came to Kagoshima seeking refuge, and took up residence on the former site of the temple. They are said to have been treated well there, and most returned to Nagasaki by [[1873]]; however, 53 Christians who died while in Kagoshima were buried at a Christian cemetery on a hill just above the samurai cemetery, created for that purpose in [[1905]] by Father [[Emile Raguet]].

 

Though the temple is no longer in operation, the Shimazu clan cemetery which houses the graves of numerous generations of clan heads continues to be maintained on the site. Gyokuryû Middle School & High School now stands on the former site of the Fukushô-ji temple buildings.

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==Selected Burials==

==Selected Burials==

*[[Shimazu Morohisa]]

*[[Shimazu Morohisa]]

*[[Shimazu Ujihisa]], his wife, and a daughter

*[[Shimazu Ujihisa]], his wife, and a daughter

*[[Shimazu Tadakuni]] and his wife

*[[Shimazu Tadakuni]] and his wife

*[[Shimazu Tatsuhisa]] and his wife

*[[Shimazu Tatsuhisa]] and his wife

*[[Shimazu Tadamasa]] and his wife

*[[Shimazu Tadamasa (1463-1508)|Shimazu Tadamasa]] and his wife

*[[Shimazu Tadaharu]]

*[[Shimazu Tadaharu]]

*[[Shimazu Tadataka]]

*[[Shimazu Tadataka]]

*Gallery labels, [[Shokoshuseikan|Shôkoshûseikan]], Kagoshima.

*Gallery labels, [[Shokoshuseikan|Shôkoshûseikan]], Kagoshima.

*Plaques on-site.

*Plaques on-site.

==External Links==

==External Links==