Nansen-in
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- Founded: 1710, Shimazu Yoshitaka
- Japanese: 大雄山仏日寺南泉院 (Daio-zan butsunichi-ji Nansen-in)
Nansen-in was a Tendai Buddhist temple in Kagoshima, a branch temple of Enryaku-ji, established in 1710 by Shimazu Yoshitaka. The temple served as the fure-gashira for Satsuma, Ôsumi, and Hyûga provinces, communicating messages from Enryaku-ji to all other Tendai temples in that region.
The spirits of the first five Tokugawa shoguns were enshrined there. In 1862, the spirit of Shimazu Nariakira was enshrined there as well, being relocated two years later to the then newly-completed Terukuni Shrine.
References
- Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 81.
