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[[File:Fukushoji.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Gravestones and surrounding stone lanterns at Fukushô-ji]]

[[File:Fukushoji.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Gravestones and surrounding stone lanterns at Fukushô-ji]]

*''Established: [[1394]], [[Sekioku Shinryo|Sekioku Shinryô]]''

*''Established: [[1394]], [[Sekioku Shinryo|Sekioku Shinryô]]''

*''Other Names'': 玉龍山 ''(Gyokuryuuzan)''

*''Other Names'': 玉龍山 ''(Gyokuryuuzan)''

*''Japanese'': 福昌寺 ''(Fukushou-ji)''

*''Japanese'': 福昌寺 ''(Fukushou-ji)''

Fukushô-ji was a [[Soto Zen|Sôtô Zen]] temple in [[Kagoshima]], which served as the family temple (''[[bodaiji]]'') for the [[Shimazu clan]]. A branch temple of [[Soji-ji|Shogakuzan Sôji-ji]] in [[Noto province]],<ref>Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 80.</ref> it was one of the Three Temples of Kagoshima (''mikedera'', 三ヶ寺), along with [[Jokomyo-ji (Kagoshima)|Jôkômyô-ji]] and [[Dairyu-ji|Dairyû-ji]].<ref>Plaques on-site in Kanmachi, Kagoshima.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/15066879717/sizes/h/]</ref> Though the temple is no longer in operation, the Shimazu clan cemetery which houses the graves of numerous generations of clan heads continues to be maintained on the site. Gyokuryû Middle School & High School now stands on the former site of the Fukushô-ji temple buildings.

Fukushô-ji was a [[Soto Zen|Sôtô Zen]] temple in [[Kagoshima]], which served as the family temple (''[[bodaiji]]'') for the [[Shimazu clan]]. At its height, it was the largest temple in [[Satsuma han|Satsuma domain]], with some 1500 monks in residence.

 

A branch temple of [[Soji-ji|Shogakuzan Sôji-ji]] in [[Noto province]],<ref>Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 80.</ref> it was one of the Three Temples of Kagoshima (''mikedera'', 三ヶ寺), along with [[Jokomyo-ji (Kagoshima)|Jôkômyô-ji]] and [[Dairyu-ji|Dairyû-ji]].<ref>Plaques on-site in Kanmachi, Kagoshima.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/15066879717/sizes/h/]</ref> Though the temple is no longer in operation, the Shimazu clan cemetery which houses the graves of numerous generations of clan heads continues to be maintained on the site. Gyokuryû Middle School & High School now stands on the former site of the Fukushô-ji temple buildings.

The temple was established in [[1394]] when [[Shimazu Motohisa]] invited the [[Zen]] priest [[Sekioku Shinryo|Sekioku Shinryô]] to Kagoshima to establish a ''bodaiji'' for the Shimazu clan. It later became one of the three largest head temples for monk registrars (僧録, ''sôroku'') in the country, overseeing all the Buddhist monks in southern Kyushu, as well as a ''chokuganjo'', a prayer hall that could be used by the [[Emperor]]. Fukushô-ji branch temples were established in numerous locations across Kyushu, Shikoku, and the [[Chugoku region|Chûgoku region]].

The temple was established in [[1394]] when [[Shimazu Motohisa]] invited the [[Zen]] priest [[Sekioku Shinryo|Sekioku Shinryô]] to Kagoshima to establish a ''bodaiji'' for the Shimazu clan. It later became one of the three largest head temples for monk registrars (僧録, ''sôroku'') in the country, overseeing all the Buddhist monks in southern Kyushu, as well as a ''chokuganjo'', a prayer hall that could be used by the [[Emperor]]. Fukushô-ji branch temples were established in numerous locations across Kyushu, Shikoku, and the [[Chugoku region|Chûgoku region]].

Fukushô-ji was abolished in the early [[Meiji period]], as part of the ''[[haibutsu kishaku]]'' anti-Buddhist campaigns of that time.

Fukushô-ji was abolished in [[1869]], as part of the ''[[haibutsu kishaku]]'' anti-Buddhist campaigns of the early [[Meiji period]].

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*Gallery labels, [[Shokoshuseikan|Shôkoshûseikan]], Kagoshima.

*Gallery labels, [[Shokoshuseikan|Shôkoshûseikan]], Kagoshima.

*Plaques on-site.

*Plaques on-site.

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