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*''Founded: [[1415]], [[Nichiryu|Nichiryû]]''
*''Japanese'': 本能寺 ''(honnouji)''
Honnôji is a [[Buddhist temple]] in [[Kyoto]] most famous for the [[1582]] [[Honnoji Incident|Honnôji Incident]] in which [[Oda Nobunaga]] died. The temple was rebuilt in a new location shortly afterwards.
Honnôji is the head temple of the [[Hokke sect|Hokke Hommon sect]] of Buddhism. It was founded by [[Nichiryu|Nichiryû]], a disciple of [[Nichiren]] in [[1415]] at a site on the street Aburanokôji. This temple, originally named Hon'ôji (本応寺), was destroyed in [[1433]]. Another temple, known as Rokkaku Taigû, was moved to the site in order to rebuild/reestablish the Hon'ôji, now renamed Honnôji.
At its height, Honnôji boasted 30 residences within a large temple complex. It was destroyed in a fire in the [[1536]] [[Tenbun Hokke Incident]], but was rebuilt in [[1547]]-[[1548]].
Oda Nobunaga made the extensive temple complex his temporary residence, but was attacked there on [[1582]]/6/2 by the forces of his turncoat retainer [[Akechi Mitsuhide]]. Mitsuhide betrayed his lord and surrounded the temple, forcing Nobunaga to commit suicide, and then burning the temple to the ground. [[Oda Nobutaka]] rebuilt the temple on the same site afterwards, but [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] then moved the temple in [[1589]] to a new location, at Teramachi-Oike.
During the [[Edo period]], Honnôji served on at least one occasion to house [[Korean embassies to Edo]]. In [[1719]], the 9th Edo period Korean mission, consisting of 475 people, came to Japan on the occasion of the accession of the 8th [[shogun]], [[Tokugawa Yoshimune]]. While 129 of them stayed in Osaka, the remaining 346, along with the Lord of [[Tsushima han]] and others acting as a protective escort, passed through Toba Jisô-ji from [[Yodo]] and entered the capital (Kyoto) on 9/12, staying for one night at Honnôji. The lead ambassador and others stayed in the main hall (''hondô''), while the translators stayed in the Kichijô-in, and various higher officers stayed at Renshô-in, a sub-temple. Honnôji records indicate that the abbot and other monks of Honnôji left for other temples during this time. That night, the [[Kyoto shoshidai]], [[Matsudaira Tadachika]], and others came to offer greetings, and a banquet was prepared on the orders of the shogun. The ''seijutsukan'' (製述官) Shin Yu-han, in his diary ''Kaiyûroku'' (海遊録), wrote of Honnôji that "nothing can compare in splendor/magnificence". On the return to Kyoto from Edo, the embassy stayed at Honnôji again, from the first until the third of the first month. Members of the Tsushima han [[So clan|Sô clan]] escort and other samurai escorts stayed at other nearby temples and private homes.
Honnôji was destroyed by fire once again, in the mid-19th century, and was rebuilt in 1928.
==References==
*Plaques on-site at current, and former, sites of the Honnôji.
==External Links==
*[https://maps.google.com/maps?q=%E4%BA%AC%E9%83%BD%E5%B8%82%E6%9C%AC%E8%83%BD%E5%AF%BA&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=35.005776,135.753647&spn=0.001184,0.002642&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=37.188995,86.572266&t=h&hnear=Honnojicho,+Nakagyo+Ward,+Kyoto,+Kyoto+Prefecture,+Japan&z=19&layer=c&cbll=35.005676,135.753644&panoid=Yi6iGT7IQi73d8nmaTqcdA&cbp=12,67.79,,1,14.61 Former site of the Honnôji on Google Maps]
*[https://maps.google.com/maps?q=%E4%BA%AC%E9%83%BD%E5%B8%82%E5%A4%A7%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97%E7%94%BA%E6%9C%AC%E8%83%BD%E5%AF%BA&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=35.010214,135.768246&spn=0.001175,0.002642&sll=35.005675,135.753644&sspn=0.001184,0.002642&t=h&hq=%E6%9C%AC%E8%83%BD%E5%AF%BA&hnear=Daimonjicho,+Sakyo+Ward,+Kyoto,+Kyoto+Prefecture,+Japan&z=19 Current site of the Honnôji on Google Maps]
[[Category:Temples]]
[[Category:Sengoku Period]]
*''Japanese'': 本能寺 ''(honnouji)''
Honnôji is a [[Buddhist temple]] in [[Kyoto]] most famous for the [[1582]] [[Honnoji Incident|Honnôji Incident]] in which [[Oda Nobunaga]] died. The temple was rebuilt in a new location shortly afterwards.
Honnôji is the head temple of the [[Hokke sect|Hokke Hommon sect]] of Buddhism. It was founded by [[Nichiryu|Nichiryû]], a disciple of [[Nichiren]] in [[1415]] at a site on the street Aburanokôji. This temple, originally named Hon'ôji (本応寺), was destroyed in [[1433]]. Another temple, known as Rokkaku Taigû, was moved to the site in order to rebuild/reestablish the Hon'ôji, now renamed Honnôji.
At its height, Honnôji boasted 30 residences within a large temple complex. It was destroyed in a fire in the [[1536]] [[Tenbun Hokke Incident]], but was rebuilt in [[1547]]-[[1548]].
Oda Nobunaga made the extensive temple complex his temporary residence, but was attacked there on [[1582]]/6/2 by the forces of his turncoat retainer [[Akechi Mitsuhide]]. Mitsuhide betrayed his lord and surrounded the temple, forcing Nobunaga to commit suicide, and then burning the temple to the ground. [[Oda Nobutaka]] rebuilt the temple on the same site afterwards, but [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] then moved the temple in [[1589]] to a new location, at Teramachi-Oike.
During the [[Edo period]], Honnôji served on at least one occasion to house [[Korean embassies to Edo]]. In [[1719]], the 9th Edo period Korean mission, consisting of 475 people, came to Japan on the occasion of the accession of the 8th [[shogun]], [[Tokugawa Yoshimune]]. While 129 of them stayed in Osaka, the remaining 346, along with the Lord of [[Tsushima han]] and others acting as a protective escort, passed through Toba Jisô-ji from [[Yodo]] and entered the capital (Kyoto) on 9/12, staying for one night at Honnôji. The lead ambassador and others stayed in the main hall (''hondô''), while the translators stayed in the Kichijô-in, and various higher officers stayed at Renshô-in, a sub-temple. Honnôji records indicate that the abbot and other monks of Honnôji left for other temples during this time. That night, the [[Kyoto shoshidai]], [[Matsudaira Tadachika]], and others came to offer greetings, and a banquet was prepared on the orders of the shogun. The ''seijutsukan'' (製述官) Shin Yu-han, in his diary ''Kaiyûroku'' (海遊録), wrote of Honnôji that "nothing can compare in splendor/magnificence". On the return to Kyoto from Edo, the embassy stayed at Honnôji again, from the first until the third of the first month. Members of the Tsushima han [[So clan|Sô clan]] escort and other samurai escorts stayed at other nearby temples and private homes.
Honnôji was destroyed by fire once again, in the mid-19th century, and was rebuilt in 1928.
==References==
*Plaques on-site at current, and former, sites of the Honnôji.
==External Links==
*[https://maps.google.com/maps?q=%E4%BA%AC%E9%83%BD%E5%B8%82%E6%9C%AC%E8%83%BD%E5%AF%BA&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=35.005776,135.753647&spn=0.001184,0.002642&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=37.188995,86.572266&t=h&hnear=Honnojicho,+Nakagyo+Ward,+Kyoto,+Kyoto+Prefecture,+Japan&z=19&layer=c&cbll=35.005676,135.753644&panoid=Yi6iGT7IQi73d8nmaTqcdA&cbp=12,67.79,,1,14.61 Former site of the Honnôji on Google Maps]
*[https://maps.google.com/maps?q=%E4%BA%AC%E9%83%BD%E5%B8%82%E5%A4%A7%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97%E7%94%BA%E6%9C%AC%E8%83%BD%E5%AF%BA&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=35.010214,135.768246&spn=0.001175,0.002642&sll=35.005675,135.753644&sspn=0.001184,0.002642&t=h&hq=%E6%9C%AC%E8%83%BD%E5%AF%BA&hnear=Daimonjicho,+Sakyo+Ward,+Kyoto,+Kyoto+Prefecture,+Japan&z=19 Current site of the Honnôji on Google Maps]
[[Category:Temples]]
[[Category:Sengoku Period]]