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[[Image:Kaneiji.jpg|right|thumb|350px|One of the extant gates at Kan'ei-ji.]]
*''Built: [[1625]]''
*''Other Names'': 東叡山 ''(Touei-zan)''
*''Japanese'': 寛永寺 ''(Kan'ei-ji)''
Kan'ei-ji is a [[Tendai]] Buddhist temple located in [[Ueno Park]]; along with [[Zojo-ji|Zôjô-ji]], it was one of two [[Tokugawa clan]] family temples in the Tokugawa shogunal capital of [[Edo]]. Six [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa shoguns]] were buried on the temple grounds; six more are buried at Zôjô-ji.
The temple was originally built in [[1625]] to help defend the shogunal capital of [[Edo]] from the unlucky northeastern direction. The construction and establishment was overseen by [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]]; it was founded by the monk [[Tenkai]]<!--天海-->, and served as the center of the Tendai sect for the [[Kanto region|Kantô region]].
During the [[battle of Ueno]] in [[1868]], as the shogunate fell, a group of pro-shogunate loyalists known as the [[Shogitai|Shôgitai]] holed up in the temple, which was accordingly attacked. Many of those killed that day are formally buried at the temple.
The temple suffered extensive damage and was all but destroyed completely in the Allied bombings of Tokyo in 1945. Several buildings on the grounds survive, or were rebuilt, but the temple grounds, which once covered the full area of what is today Ueno Park, have been shrunk considerably. The tombs of four shoguns survive, but those of [[Tokugawa Ietsuna]] and [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]] were destroyed.
Kan'ei-ji is today a designated [[Important Cultural Property]].
==References==
*Plaques on site.
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%AF%9B%E6%B0%B8%E5%AF%BA Kan'ei-ji]." Digital Daijisen. Shogakukan.
[[Category:Temples]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
*''Built: [[1625]]''
*''Other Names'': 東叡山 ''(Touei-zan)''
*''Japanese'': 寛永寺 ''(Kan'ei-ji)''
Kan'ei-ji is a [[Tendai]] Buddhist temple located in [[Ueno Park]]; along with [[Zojo-ji|Zôjô-ji]], it was one of two [[Tokugawa clan]] family temples in the Tokugawa shogunal capital of [[Edo]]. Six [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa shoguns]] were buried on the temple grounds; six more are buried at Zôjô-ji.
The temple was originally built in [[1625]] to help defend the shogunal capital of [[Edo]] from the unlucky northeastern direction. The construction and establishment was overseen by [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]]; it was founded by the monk [[Tenkai]]<!--天海-->, and served as the center of the Tendai sect for the [[Kanto region|Kantô region]].
During the [[battle of Ueno]] in [[1868]], as the shogunate fell, a group of pro-shogunate loyalists known as the [[Shogitai|Shôgitai]] holed up in the temple, which was accordingly attacked. Many of those killed that day are formally buried at the temple.
The temple suffered extensive damage and was all but destroyed completely in the Allied bombings of Tokyo in 1945. Several buildings on the grounds survive, or were rebuilt, but the temple grounds, which once covered the full area of what is today Ueno Park, have been shrunk considerably. The tombs of four shoguns survive, but those of [[Tokugawa Ietsuna]] and [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]] were destroyed.
Kan'ei-ji is today a designated [[Important Cultural Property]].
==References==
*Plaques on site.
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%AF%9B%E6%B0%B8%E5%AF%BA Kan'ei-ji]." Digital Daijisen. Shogakukan.
[[Category:Temples]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
