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[[Image:Hokaiji.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Hôkai-ji as seen from the street.]]

[[Image:Hokaiji.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Hôkai-ji as seen from the street.]]

*''Established: [[1335]], [[Emperor Go-Daigo]]''

*''Established: [[1335]], [[Ashikaga Takauji]]''

*''Japanese'': 宝戒寺 ''(houkai-ji)''

*''Japanese'': 宝戒寺 ''(houkai-ji)''

Hôkai-ji is a [[Tendai]] Buddhist temple in [[Kamakura]], founded by [[Emperor Go-Daigo]] in [[1335]]. It was built to replace the [[Hojo clan|Hôjô clan's]] family temple, [[Tosho-ji|Tôshô-ji]], following the [[1333]] [[siege of Kamakura]] and destruction of the Hôjô clan's hold on power, i.e. the fall of the [[Kamakura shogunate]]. The temple was completed in 1335, on the site of the Hôjô clan's mansion.

Hôkai-ji is a [[Tendai]] Buddhist temple in [[Kamakura]], founded in [[1335]] by [[Ashikaga Takauji]] at the suggestion of [[Emperor Go-Daigo]]. It was built to replace the [[Hojo clan|Hôjô clan's]] family temple, [[Tosho-ji|Tôshô-ji]], and to console the spirits of the fallen Hôjô, following the [[1333]] [[siege of Kamakura]] and destruction of the Hôjô clan's hold on power, i.e. the fall of the [[Kamakura shogunate]]. The temple was completed in 1335, on the site of the Hôjô clan's mansion.

Hôkai-ji is also the location of one of the [[Seven Lucky Gods of Kamakura]] - [[Bishamonten]].

Hôkai-ji is also the location of one of the [[Seven Lucky Gods of Kamakura]] - [[Bishamonten]].