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*''Born: [[1536]]''
*''Died: [[1643]]''
Tenkai was a Buddhist priest and prominent advisor to Shoguns [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] and [[Tokugawa Hidetada]]. He founded a number of temples and shrines, including [[Kan'ei-ji]] and the [[Kiyomizu Kannondo|Kiyomizu Kannon-dô]] in Ueno, and played a notable role in the early development of [[Nikko Toshogu|Nikkô Tôshôgû]].
According to some sources, Tenkai was prominent in ''daimyô'' circles as early as the 1560s, talking with [[Takeda Shingen]] following the [[Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima]].
Following Ieyasu's death and enshrinement at Kunôzan Tôshôgû, Tenkai managed to push [[Bonshun]] and [[Ishin Suden|Ishin Sûden]] out of accompanying him in overseeing Ieyasu's mourning ceremony at the [[Tokugawa clan]] temple of [[Zojo-ji|Zôjô-ji]] in [[Edo]]. He then also convinced Hidetada to have Ieyasu's body and spirit relocated from Kunôzan to Nikkô; Ieyasu was installed as the chief deity of a shrine at Nikkô on [[1617]]/4/17, the first anniversary of his death.
Tenkai later founded Kan'ei-ji in [[1625]], and the Kiyomizu Kannon-dô in [[1631]].
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==References==
*Morgan Pitelka, ''Spectacular Accumulation'', University of Hawaii Press (2016), 146-147.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Religious Figures]]
*''Died: [[1643]]''
Tenkai was a Buddhist priest and prominent advisor to Shoguns [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] and [[Tokugawa Hidetada]]. He founded a number of temples and shrines, including [[Kan'ei-ji]] and the [[Kiyomizu Kannondo|Kiyomizu Kannon-dô]] in Ueno, and played a notable role in the early development of [[Nikko Toshogu|Nikkô Tôshôgû]].
According to some sources, Tenkai was prominent in ''daimyô'' circles as early as the 1560s, talking with [[Takeda Shingen]] following the [[Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima]].
Following Ieyasu's death and enshrinement at Kunôzan Tôshôgû, Tenkai managed to push [[Bonshun]] and [[Ishin Suden|Ishin Sûden]] out of accompanying him in overseeing Ieyasu's mourning ceremony at the [[Tokugawa clan]] temple of [[Zojo-ji|Zôjô-ji]] in [[Edo]]. He then also convinced Hidetada to have Ieyasu's body and spirit relocated from Kunôzan to Nikkô; Ieyasu was installed as the chief deity of a shrine at Nikkô on [[1617]]/4/17, the first anniversary of his death.
Tenkai later founded Kan'ei-ji in [[1625]], and the Kiyomizu Kannon-dô in [[1631]].
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==References==
*Morgan Pitelka, ''Spectacular Accumulation'', University of Hawaii Press (2016), 146-147.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Religious Figures]]
