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*''Japanese'': 正龍寺 ''(seiryuu ji)''
Seiryû-ji was a significant Buddhist temple in the port of [[Yamakawa]], at the southern end of [[Satsuma province]].
The temple was a major center of [[Satsunan school]] [[Neo-Confucianism]] in the port, and people at the temple, well-versed in Chinese language, played a significant role in the translation and drafting of trade documents.
The ''[[haibutsu kishaku]]'' (separation of [[Shinto]] and [[Buddhism]]) movement of the early [[Meiji period]] was particularly strongly executed in [[Satsuma han]], and Seiryû-ji was one of many temples destroyed at that time, and not reestablished. A number of gravestones from the temple's cemetery were recovered, however, in excavations conducted in 1965, and were re-erected. These include at least one gravestone for a [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] official, Ufugushiku niya, dated [[1615]]; memorial monuments have also been erected in recent years in honor of the Ryukyuans who died in the port over the centuries, and also of those who died in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]] of [[1877]].
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==References==
*"Ibusuki shi Yamakawa o aruku" 指宿市山川を歩く, ''Momoto'' モモト 14 (April 2013), n.p.
[[Category:Temples]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
Seiryû-ji was a significant Buddhist temple in the port of [[Yamakawa]], at the southern end of [[Satsuma province]].
The temple was a major center of [[Satsunan school]] [[Neo-Confucianism]] in the port, and people at the temple, well-versed in Chinese language, played a significant role in the translation and drafting of trade documents.
The ''[[haibutsu kishaku]]'' (separation of [[Shinto]] and [[Buddhism]]) movement of the early [[Meiji period]] was particularly strongly executed in [[Satsuma han]], and Seiryû-ji was one of many temples destroyed at that time, and not reestablished. A number of gravestones from the temple's cemetery were recovered, however, in excavations conducted in 1965, and were re-erected. These include at least one gravestone for a [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] official, Ufugushiku niya, dated [[1615]]; memorial monuments have also been erected in recent years in honor of the Ryukyuans who died in the port over the centuries, and also of those who died in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]] of [[1877]].
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==References==
*"Ibusuki shi Yamakawa o aruku" 指宿市山川を歩く, ''Momoto'' モモト 14 (April 2013), n.p.
[[Category:Temples]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]