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[[Image:Hokaiji.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Hôkai-ji as seen from the street.]]
*''Established: [[1335]], [[Emperor Go-Daigo]]''
*''Japanese'': 宝戒寺 ''(houkai-ji)''
Hôkai-ji is a [[Tendai]] Buddhist temple in [[Kamakura]], founded by [[Emperor Go-Daigo]] in [[1335]]. It was built to replace the [[Hojo clan|Hôjô clan's]] family temple, [[Tosho-ji|Tôshô-ji]], following the [[1333]] [[siege of Kamakura]] and destruction of the Hôjô clan's hold on power, i.e. the fall of the [[Kamakura shogunate]]. The temple was completed in 1335, on the site of the Hôjô clan's mansion.
Hôkai-ji is also the location of one of the [[Seven Lucky Gods of Kamakura]] - [[Bishamonten]].
==References==
*"[http://www.kamakura-burabura.com/meisyokamakurahoukaiji.htm Hôkai-ji]." Kamakura-burabura.com.
*Plaques onsite.
[[Category:Temples]]
[[Category:Muromachi Period]]
*''Established: [[1335]], [[Emperor Go-Daigo]]''
*''Japanese'': 宝戒寺 ''(houkai-ji)''
Hôkai-ji is a [[Tendai]] Buddhist temple in [[Kamakura]], founded by [[Emperor Go-Daigo]] in [[1335]]. It was built to replace the [[Hojo clan|Hôjô clan's]] family temple, [[Tosho-ji|Tôshô-ji]], following the [[1333]] [[siege of Kamakura]] and destruction of the Hôjô clan's hold on power, i.e. the fall of the [[Kamakura shogunate]]. The temple was completed in 1335, on the site of the Hôjô clan's mansion.
Hôkai-ji is also the location of one of the [[Seven Lucky Gods of Kamakura]] - [[Bishamonten]].
==References==
*"[http://www.kamakura-burabura.com/meisyokamakurahoukaiji.htm Hôkai-ji]." Kamakura-burabura.com.
*Plaques onsite.
[[Category:Temples]]
[[Category:Muromachi Period]]