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*''Established: [[1615]]''
*''Other Names'': 松音寺 ''(Shou on ji)''
*''Japanese'': 万松院 ''(Banshouin)''
*''Japanese'': 万松院 ''(Banshouin)''
Banshôin in Izuhara, on [[Tsushima Island]], is the family temple (''[[bodaiji]]'') of the [[So clan|Sô clan]], lords of [[Tsushima han|Tsushima domain]]. [[So Sadakuni|Sô Sadakuni]] (r. [[1468]]-[[1492]]) and all [[Edo period]] lords from [[So Yoshitoshi|Sô Yoshitoshi]] (r. [[1588]]-[[1615]]) onwards are buried there.
Banshôin in Izuhara, on [[Tsushima Island]], is the family temple (''[[bodaiji]]'') of the [[So clan|Sô clan]], lords of [[Tsushima han|Tsushima domain]]. [[So Sadakuni|Sô Sadakuni]] (r. [[1468]]-[[1492]]) and all [[Edo period]] lords from [[So Yoshitoshi|Sô Yoshitoshi]] (r. [[1588]]-[[1615]]) onwards are buried there.
A lengthy set of stone stairs known as ''[[gangi|hyakugangi]]'' leads up to two levels of gravesites. About halfway up the stairs is the "central mausoleum," or ''naka otamaya'', a space including the graves of Sô Sadakuni and other earlier lords of Tsushima, as well as of their wives and children. At the top of the stairs is the "upper mausoleum," or ''kami otamaya'', featuring the graves of Edo period lords and their wives and children, from Sô Yoshitoshi through to 20th century heads of the family such as Count [[So Takeyuki|Sô Takeyuki]] ([[1908]]-1985; grandson of second-to-last lord of the domain [[So Yoshiyori|Sô Yoshiyori]]).
Yoshitoshi was the first to be buried there (in 1615), on a site to the west of [[Kaneishi castle]], the primary seat of the domain. The temple established to accompany the cemetery was initially named Shôon-ji, but was renamed Banshô-in, after Yoshitoshi's posthumous Buddhist name, when it was made the Sô clan's family temple in [[1621]].
A lengthy set of stone stairs known as ''[[gangi|hyakugangi]]'' leads up to three levels of gravesites. First are the "lower mausoleum" (''shimo otamaya'') and "central mausoleum," or ''naka otamaya'', spaces where Sô Sadakuni and other earlier lords of Tsushima are buried alongside their wives and children, and a number of wives and children of later lords. At the top of the stairs is the "upper mausoleum," or ''kami otamaya'', where the Edo period lords, from Sô Yoshitoshi through to 20th century heads of the family such as Count [[So Takeyuki|Sô Takeyuki]] ([[1908]]-1985; grandson of second-to-last lord of the domain [[So Yoshiyori|Sô Yoshiyori]]), are buried alongside a number of their wives and children. Another separate graveyard is maintained on the western side of the temple; a number of other people born into or related to the Sô house are buried there.
While the main gate of the temple survives from the early Edo period, the remaining buildings in the grounds were destroyed by fires in the 18th or 19th century; the main hall and priestly residence standing today date to [[1880]].
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==References==
==References==
*James Lewis, ''Frontier Contact between Choson Korea and Tokugawa Japan'', Routledge (2003), 95.
*James Lewis, ''Frontier Contact between Choson Korea and Tokugawa Japan'', Routledge (2003), 95.
*Explanatory plaques on-site.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/52092119387/sizes/h/]
*Explanatory plaques on-site.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/52092133587/sizes/k/][https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/52092119387/sizes/h/]
[[Category:Temples]]
[[Category:Temples]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]