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Created page with "*''Established: 1554, Shimazu Takahisa'' *''Dissolved: c. 1869-1870'' *''Japanese'': 南林寺 ''(Nanrinji)'' Nanrin-ji was a Buddhist temple in Kagoshima..."
*''Established: [[1554]], [[Shimazu Takahisa]]''
*''Dissolved: c. [[1869]]-[[1870]]''
*''Japanese'': 南林寺 ''(Nanrinji)''
Nanrin-ji was a Buddhist temple in [[Kagoshima]], which served as a family temple (''[[bodaiji]]'') for the [[Shimazu clan]] lords of [[Satsuma han]].
The temple was established by [[Shimazu Takahisa]] in [[1554]] as a branch temple of the Shimazu family temple [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]].
It was dissolved in [[1869]] or [[1870]], along with a great many other temples in Satsuma domain, as part of the nationwide anti-Buddhist policy of ''[[haibutsu kishaku]]''. [[Matsubara Shrine]] was established in its place, and remains on the site today.
The [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] scholar-official [[Chatan Choshu|Chatan Chôshû]] died in Kagoshima in [[1653]] before departing [[Ryukyuan embassies to Edo|for Edo]], and was buried at Nanrin-ji.
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==References==
*Ono Masako, Tomita Chinatsu, Kanna Keiko, Taguchi Kei, "Shiryô shôkai Kishi Akimasa bunko Satsuyû kikô," ''Shiryôhenshûshitsu kiyô'' 31 (2006), 232.
[[Category:Temples]]
[[Category:Sengoku Period]]
*''Dissolved: c. [[1869]]-[[1870]]''
*''Japanese'': 南林寺 ''(Nanrinji)''
Nanrin-ji was a Buddhist temple in [[Kagoshima]], which served as a family temple (''[[bodaiji]]'') for the [[Shimazu clan]] lords of [[Satsuma han]].
The temple was established by [[Shimazu Takahisa]] in [[1554]] as a branch temple of the Shimazu family temple [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]].
It was dissolved in [[1869]] or [[1870]], along with a great many other temples in Satsuma domain, as part of the nationwide anti-Buddhist policy of ''[[haibutsu kishaku]]''. [[Matsubara Shrine]] was established in its place, and remains on the site today.
The [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] scholar-official [[Chatan Choshu|Chatan Chôshû]] died in Kagoshima in [[1653]] before departing [[Ryukyuan embassies to Edo|for Edo]], and was buried at Nanrin-ji.
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==References==
*Ono Masako, Tomita Chinatsu, Kanna Keiko, Taguchi Kei, "Shiryô shôkai Kishi Akimasa bunko Satsuyû kikô," ''Shiryôhenshûshitsu kiyô'' 31 (2006), 232.
[[Category:Temples]]
[[Category:Sengoku Period]]