Honryu-ji (Kagoshima)

Japanese: 本立寺 (honryuu ji)

Honryû-ji was a Buddhist temple in Kagoshima where the first five heads of the Shimazu clan were buried. Today, only a small portion of the temple grounds (including the Shimazu graves) survives.

A branch temple of the Ji sect temple Jôkômyô-ji, it was originally known as Godô-in, a reference to the five lords buried there.^[1] Graves for these five lords can also be found at Kannô-ji, a temple in Izumi City, Kagoshima prefecture. The Godô-in temple was renamed Honryû-ji during the time of the 19th clan head, Shimazu Mitsuhisa, and was expanded under the 18th (Shimazu Iehisa), 20th (Shimazu Tsunataka), and 21st (Shimazu Yoshitaka).

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References

"Honryû-ji ato," Kagoshima Digital Museum, 2011.

↑ The five all bore Buddhist posthumous names including the character 道 (dô).

[1] The five all bore Buddhist posthumous names including the character 道 (dô).

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