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[[Image:Shirakawain.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Main gate to the former Shirakawa-in / Hosshô-ji complex.]]
*''Established: [[1075]], [[Emperor Shirakawa]]''
*''Japanese'': 法勝寺 ''(hosshouji)''
Hosshô-ji was a temple in [[Kyoto]] established by [[Emperor Shirakawa]] in [[1075]].
The site had formerly been a [[Fujiwara clan]] villa, but came into the hands of Emperor Shirakawa during the time of [[Fujiwara Morosuke]] (1042-1101). The villa thus came to be called the Shirakawa-in; Emperor Shirakawa built a temple on the grounds and called it Hosshô-ji. It included an 80 meter tall octagonal nine-story pagoda, the tallest building in the country at that time.
Many of the temple's buildings were destroyed in an earthquake in [[1185]]; the pagoda survived the earthquake but was destroyed by lightning in [[1208]]. [[Zen]] master Eisai, the ''daikanjin'' (head of donations collection), saw it rebuilt, but it was destroyed along with the rest of the temple in a fire in [[1342]]. A few buildings were rebuilt, but the temple declined and eventually went defunct.
The grounds are today the home of a private school.
==References==
*Plaque on-site.
==External Links==
*[http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%E4%BA%AC%E9%83%BD%E5%B8%82%E7%99%BD%E6%B2%B3%E9%99%A2&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=35.014049,135.787711&spn=0.002381,0.001985&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=37.683309,32.519531&t=h&hq=%E4%BA%AC%E9%83%BD%E5%B8%82%E7%99%BD%E6%B2%B3%E9%99%A2&radius=15000&z=18 Shirakawa-in / Hosshô-ji site on Google Maps]
[[Category:Temples]]
[[Category:Historic Buildings]]
[[Category:Heian Period]]
*''Established: [[1075]], [[Emperor Shirakawa]]''
*''Japanese'': 法勝寺 ''(hosshouji)''
Hosshô-ji was a temple in [[Kyoto]] established by [[Emperor Shirakawa]] in [[1075]].
The site had formerly been a [[Fujiwara clan]] villa, but came into the hands of Emperor Shirakawa during the time of [[Fujiwara Morosuke]] (1042-1101). The villa thus came to be called the Shirakawa-in; Emperor Shirakawa built a temple on the grounds and called it Hosshô-ji. It included an 80 meter tall octagonal nine-story pagoda, the tallest building in the country at that time.
Many of the temple's buildings were destroyed in an earthquake in [[1185]]; the pagoda survived the earthquake but was destroyed by lightning in [[1208]]. [[Zen]] master Eisai, the ''daikanjin'' (head of donations collection), saw it rebuilt, but it was destroyed along with the rest of the temple in a fire in [[1342]]. A few buildings were rebuilt, but the temple declined and eventually went defunct.
The grounds are today the home of a private school.
==References==
*Plaque on-site.
==External Links==
*[http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%E4%BA%AC%E9%83%BD%E5%B8%82%E7%99%BD%E6%B2%B3%E9%99%A2&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=35.014049,135.787711&spn=0.002381,0.001985&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=37.683309,32.519531&t=h&hq=%E4%BA%AC%E9%83%BD%E5%B8%82%E7%99%BD%E6%B2%B3%E9%99%A2&radius=15000&z=18 Shirakawa-in / Hosshô-ji site on Google Maps]
[[Category:Temples]]
[[Category:Historic Buildings]]
[[Category:Heian Period]]