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*''Other Names'': 松峯山 ''(shouhouzan)''
 
*''Japanese'': 浄光明寺 ''(joukoumyou ji)''
 
*''Japanese'': 浄光明寺 ''(joukoumyou ji)''
  
Jôkômyô-ji is a Buddhist temple in [[Kagoshima]], a branch temple of Tôtaku-zan [[Jokomyo-ji|Jôkômyô-ji]] in [[Kamakura]]. It was one of the Three Temples of Kagoshima (''mi-ke-dera'', 三ヶ寺), along with [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]] and [[Dairyu-ji|Dairyû-ji]].<ref>Plaques on-site in Kanmachi, Kagoshima.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/15066879717/sizes/h/]</ref>
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Shôhô-zan Jôkômyô-ji is a [[Jishu|Ji sect]] Buddhist temple in [[Kagoshima]], a branch temple of Tôtaku-zan [[Jokomyo-ji|Jôkômyô-ji]] in [[Kamakura]]. It was one of the Three Temples of Kagoshima (''mi-ke-dera'', 三ヶ寺), along with [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]] and [[Dairyu-ji|Dairyû-ji]].<ref>Plaques on-site in Kanmachi, Kagoshima.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/15066879717/sizes/h/]</ref>
  
 
When [[Shimazu Tadahisa]] was named ''[[shugo]]'' of [[Satsuma province|Satsuma]], [[Osumi province|Ôsumi]], and [[Hyuga province|Hyûga provinces]] in [[1187]], he had the monk [[Giasessei|Giasessei shônin]]<ref>Second son of [[Hiki Yoshikazu]] and nephew of Tadahisa's mother [[Tango no tsubone]].</ref><!--宜阿説誠--> establish this temple.
 
When [[Shimazu Tadahisa]] was named ''[[shugo]]'' of [[Satsuma province|Satsuma]], [[Osumi province|Ôsumi]], and [[Hyuga province|Hyûga provinces]] in [[1187]], he had the monk [[Giasessei|Giasessei shônin]]<ref>Second son of [[Hiki Yoshikazu]] and nephew of Tadahisa's mother [[Tango no tsubone]].</ref><!--宜阿説誠--> establish this temple.

Revision as of 03:14, 10 December 2015

Jôkyômyô-ji as it appears today
  • Other Names: 松峯山 (shouhouzan)
  • Japanese: 浄光明寺 (joukoumyou ji)

Shôhô-zan Jôkômyô-ji is a Ji sect Buddhist temple in Kagoshima, a branch temple of Tôtaku-zan Jôkômyô-ji in Kamakura. It was one of the Three Temples of Kagoshima (mi-ke-dera, 三ヶ寺), along with Fukushô-ji and Dairyû-ji.[1]

When Shimazu Tadahisa was named shugo of Satsuma, Ôsumi, and Hyûga provinces in 1187, he had the monk Giasessei shônin[2] establish this temple.

Shimazu Yoshitaka was later buried here, before his grave was eventually relocated to Fukushô-ji.

The temple was destroyed in the 1863 bombardment of Kagoshima by the British Royal Navy, and was abolished amid the haibutsu kishaku anti-Buddhism policies of the first years of the Meiji period. In 1877, Iwamura Michitoshi saw to it that Saigô Takamori and a number of his men killed in the Satsuma Rebellion were buried at the former site of the temple, thus establishing the Nanshû Cemetery, which continues to be maintained today. Jôkômyô-ji was re-established at some point, and stands just outside the cemetery.

References

  • Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 80-81.
  1. Plaques on-site in Kanmachi, Kagoshima.[1]
  2. Second son of Hiki Yoshikazu and nephew of Tadahisa's mother Tango no tsubone.