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[[Image:Honkoku.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Today, a stele marks the site of the original Honkoku-ji, just north of Horikawa-Gojô.]]
*''Japanese'': 本圀寺 ''(Honkoku-ji)''
Honkoku-ji is a [[Nichiren Buddhism|Nichiren Buddhist]] temple in [[Kyoto]].
The temple was originally founded in the 14th century by [[Nichijo|Nichijô]]<!--日静-->, a student of [[Nichiin]]<!--日印-->, who moved to Kyoto Roku-jô-dôri from [[Kamakura]]. Along with [[Myoken-ji|Myôken-ji]], Honkoku-ji was considered of the "21 Nichiren ''[[honzan]]'' (head temples) of Kyoto."
In the [[Edo period]], Korean ''[[tongsinsa]]'' missions invited by Japan stopped and stayed for a time in Kyoto. From [[1636]] onwards, Honkoku-ji was used to house members of seven Korean missions. All together, it was used to house roughly 400 people. The name of the temple was originally written with different characters, as 「本国寺」, but there was an admiration for Chinese and Korean scholarship; [[Tokugawa Mitsukuni]] (of the [[Mito Tokugawa clan|Mito branch]] of the [[Tokugawa clan]]), who had interacted with Korean ambassadors in Edo, supported the temple, so at some point the name was changed to 「本圀寺」, incorporating the character 'kuni' (or 'koku') from Mitsukuni's name.
When Korean missions came, each Kyoto ''[[shoshidai]]'', as the representative of the shogun, came here to offer greetings, and held a banquet in honor of the guests. According to the diary kept by [[Kim In Gyon]], a member of the [[1764]] mission, at that time Honkoku-ji had a five-story pagoda with a metal tip, and a garden well-arranged with stones, and bamboo plants. According to a shogunate record of the [[1711]] mission, monastic residences at many temples, including Shôrinin, Shôyôin, Honjitsuin, and Kujôin, were used to house Korean visitors.
In 1971, Honkoku-ji was moved to Kyoto's Yamashina-ku.
==References==
*Plaques onsite.
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%9C%AC%E5%9C%80%E5%AF%BA Honkoku-ji]." ''Sekai daihyakka jiten'' 世界大百科事典. Hitachi Solutions, 2012.
==External Link==
*[http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%E6%9C%AC%E5%9C%80%E5%AF%BA&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=34.997985,135.752032&spn=0.001068,0.005284&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=37.188995,86.572266&hq=%E6%9C%AC%E5%9C%80%E5%AF%BA&radius=15000&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=34.997985,135.752033&panoid=LOp6EviGF0Hpy2Ke-BGDzA&cbp=11,231.14,,0,-4.68 The former site of Honkoku-ji on Google Maps]
[[Category:Temples]]
*''Japanese'': 本圀寺 ''(Honkoku-ji)''
Honkoku-ji is a [[Nichiren Buddhism|Nichiren Buddhist]] temple in [[Kyoto]].
The temple was originally founded in the 14th century by [[Nichijo|Nichijô]]<!--日静-->, a student of [[Nichiin]]<!--日印-->, who moved to Kyoto Roku-jô-dôri from [[Kamakura]]. Along with [[Myoken-ji|Myôken-ji]], Honkoku-ji was considered of the "21 Nichiren ''[[honzan]]'' (head temples) of Kyoto."
In the [[Edo period]], Korean ''[[tongsinsa]]'' missions invited by Japan stopped and stayed for a time in Kyoto. From [[1636]] onwards, Honkoku-ji was used to house members of seven Korean missions. All together, it was used to house roughly 400 people. The name of the temple was originally written with different characters, as 「本国寺」, but there was an admiration for Chinese and Korean scholarship; [[Tokugawa Mitsukuni]] (of the [[Mito Tokugawa clan|Mito branch]] of the [[Tokugawa clan]]), who had interacted with Korean ambassadors in Edo, supported the temple, so at some point the name was changed to 「本圀寺」, incorporating the character 'kuni' (or 'koku') from Mitsukuni's name.
When Korean missions came, each Kyoto ''[[shoshidai]]'', as the representative of the shogun, came here to offer greetings, and held a banquet in honor of the guests. According to the diary kept by [[Kim In Gyon]], a member of the [[1764]] mission, at that time Honkoku-ji had a five-story pagoda with a metal tip, and a garden well-arranged with stones, and bamboo plants. According to a shogunate record of the [[1711]] mission, monastic residences at many temples, including Shôrinin, Shôyôin, Honjitsuin, and Kujôin, were used to house Korean visitors.
In 1971, Honkoku-ji was moved to Kyoto's Yamashina-ku.
==References==
*Plaques onsite.
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%9C%AC%E5%9C%80%E5%AF%BA Honkoku-ji]." ''Sekai daihyakka jiten'' 世界大百科事典. Hitachi Solutions, 2012.
==External Link==
*[http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%E6%9C%AC%E5%9C%80%E5%AF%BA&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=34.997985,135.752032&spn=0.001068,0.005284&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=37.188995,86.572266&hq=%E6%9C%AC%E5%9C%80%E5%AF%BA&radius=15000&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=34.997985,135.752033&panoid=LOp6EviGF0Hpy2Ke-BGDzA&cbp=11,231.14,,0,-4.68 The former site of Honkoku-ji on Google Maps]
[[Category:Temples]]