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[[File:Zojoji.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The main hall at Zôjô-ji, with Tokyo Tower visible behind it]]

[[File:Zojoji.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The main hall at Zôjô-ji, with Tokyo Tower visible behind it]]

[[File:Daimon.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The Great Gate (''daimon'') of Zôjô-ji, which gives the neighborhood of Shiba Daimon, as well as the Daimon subway station, their names]]

[[File:Daimon.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The Great Gate (''daimon'') of Zôjô-ji, which gives the neighborhood of Shiba Daimon, as well as the Daimon subway station, their names]]

*''Japanese'': 増上寺 ''(zoujou-ji)''

*''Japanese'': 増上寺 ''(zoujou-ji)''

Zôjô-ji is a [[Jodo-shu|Jôdo-shû]] Buddhist temple located in the Shiba neighborhood of [[Tokyo]]; along with [[Kan'ei-ji]], it was one of two [[Tokugawa clan]] family temples in the Tokugawa shogunal capital of [[Edo]]. Six [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa shoguns]] are buried on the temple grounds; the graves of five more can be found at Kan'ei-ji.

Zôjô-ji is a [[Jodo-shu|Jôdo-shû]] Buddhist temple located in the Shiba neighborhood of [[Tokyo]], originally established in [[1393]].<ref>Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 298n283.</ref> Along with [[Kan'ei-ji]], it was one of two [[Tokugawa clan]] family temples in the Tokugawa shogunal capital of [[Edo]]. Six [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa shoguns]] are buried on the temple grounds; the graves of five more can be found at Kan'ei-ji.

Zôjô-ji was made a family mortuary temple of the Tokugawa clan in [[1598]]. [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]], already planning out his (future) capital, thought the location ideal for a variety of reasons, including its position to the south of [[Edo castle]], protecting the city spiritually from that direction, and providing a certain symmetry to [[Nikko Toshogu|Nikkô]] in the north. An additional worship hall was completed in [[1605]], and the entire complex was renovated or refurbished in [[1634]].

Zôjô-ji was made a family mortuary temple of the Tokugawa clan in [[1598]]. [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]], already planning out his (future) capital, thought the location ideal for a variety of reasons, including its position to the south of [[Edo castle]], protecting the city spiritually from that direction, and providing a certain symmetry to [[Nikko Toshogu|Nikkô]] in the north. An additional worship hall was completed in [[1605]], and the entire complex was renovated or refurbished in [[1634]].

==References==

==References==

*Anne Walthall, "Hiding the shoguns: Secrecy and the nature of political authority in Tokugawa Japan," in Bernard Scheid and Mark Teeuwen (eds.) ''The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion'', Routledge (2006), 331-356.

*Anne Walthall, "Hiding the shoguns: Secrecy and the nature of political authority in Tokugawa Japan," in Bernard Scheid and Mark Teeuwen (eds.) ''The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion'', Routledge (2006), 331-356.

[[Category:Temples]]

[[Category:Temples]]

[[Category:Edo Period]]

[[Category:Edo Period]]