Saiken-ji

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  • Japanese: 西見寺 (Saiken-ji)

Saiken-ji is a Sôtô Zen Buddhist temple in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture.

The temple's grounds contain the graves of two Ryukyuan nobles, members of Ryukyuan embassies to Edo. One is the grave of 燕姓中西筑登之 (reading unknown), a member of the 1710 mission who died on 11/2 of that year. The other belongs to Takamine peechin, also known as Gi Kunika , a member of the 1850 mission who died while in Japan.

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