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[[File:Kaneiji-hondo.JPG|right|thumb|320px|The current ''hondô'' (main hall) of Kan'ei-ji, originally built c. [[1638]], and relocated to Kan'ei-ji from [[Kawagoe]] in the 1870s, to replace the ''hondô'' lost in [[1868]].]]
[[File:Kaneiji-hondo.JPG|right|thumb|320px|The current ''hondô'' (main hall) of Kan'ei-ji, originally built c. [[1638]], and relocated to Kan'ei-ji from [[Kawagoe]] in the 1870s, to replace the ''hondô'' lost in [[1868]].]]
[[File:Kaneiji.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The main gate to the ''honbô'' (Abbot's Residence) of Kan'ei-ji, which once stood where the main hall of the [[Tokyo National Museum]] stands today. This gate remained in place and served as the main entrance for the museum upon the museum's opening in [[1878]], but following the museum's reconstruction after the 1923 Great Kantô Earthquake, the gate was moved to its current location, in front of Ueno [[Rinno-ji (Ueno)|Rinnô-ji]].]]
[[File:Kaneiji.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The main gate to the ''honbô'' (Abbot's Residence) of Kan'ei-ji, which once stood where the main hall of the [[Tokyo National Museum]] stands today. This gate remained in place and served as the main entrance for the museum upon the museum's opening in [[1878]], but following the museum's reconstruction after the 1923 Great Kantô Earthquake, the gate was moved to its current location, in front of Ueno [[Rinno-ji (Ueno)|Rinnô-ji]].]]
[[File:Uenodaibutsu.JPG|right|thumb|200px|The face of the Ueno Daibutsu, as it is displayed today]]
*''Built: [[1625]]''
*''Built: [[1625]]''
*''Other Names'': 東叡山 ''(Touei-zan)''
*''Other Names'': 東叡山 ''(Touei-zan)''
Kan'ei-ji is today a designated [[Important Cultural Property]].
Kan'ei-ji is today a designated [[Important Cultural Property]].
===Ueno Daibutsu===
The Ueno Daibutsu ("Great Buddha"), a 2.8 meter tall seated Buddha sculpture in bronze, was first erected on the grounds of the temple in [[1631]]. Its construction was funded by [[Hori Naoyori]], daimyô of [[Murakami han]] in [[Echigo province]]. The statue was destroyed in a [[1647]] earthquake, but was replaced by a larger, 3.6 m high, statue funded by the monk Jyoun, who organized collections from the people of [[Edo]]. This second statue survived through the rest of the [[Edo period]]; damaged in the [[Ansei Earthquake]] of [[1855]], it suffered more severe damage in the 1923 Great Kantô Earthquake, when the face fell off of the sculpture. The rest of the sculpture was melted down for provisions during World War II, but the face has been preserved and remains on display today in Ueno Park, alongside a pagoda erected in 1972 enshrining three small sculptures of [[Yakushi nyorai]] and the [[bodhisattva]]s [[Gakko|Gakkô]] and [[Nikko bosatsu|Nikkô]].
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