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Created page with "*''Other Names'': 指月山 ''(Shigetsu-zan)'' *''Japanese'': 月橋院 ''(Gekkyô-in)'' Gekkyô-in is a Sôtô Zen temple in the Momoyama neighborhood of [[Fush..."
*''Other Names'': 指月山 ''(Shigetsu-zan)''
*''Japanese'': 月橋院 ''(Gekkyô-in)''
Gekkyô-in is a [[Soto|Sôtô]] [[Zen]] temple in the Momoyama neighborhood of [[Fushimi]], in southern [[Kyoto]] City. Its main object of worship is a statue of [[Shaka]] Nyorai.
During the construction of [[Fushimi castle]], the temple was temporarily moved to the [[Nishijin]] neighborhood of central Kyoto, and was operated as a [[Shingon]] branch temple of [[Engaku-ji]].
But, when Bungo-bashi (aka Kangetsu-bashi, "Moon-Viewing Bridge") was completed, [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] is said to have admired the view of the bridge and the moon from this temple (in its Fushimi location), thus giving it the name Gekkyô-in ("Moon Bridge Temple"). Zen priest [[Kishu Sokaku|Kishû Sôkaku]] resided there for a time in the 1590s, and in [[1599]] the temple was changed from Shingon to Sôtô Zen.
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==References==
*"Shiryôhen kaidai shiryô honkoku: Edo dachi ni tsuki oose watashi dome" 「史料編解題・史料翻刻「江戸立二付仰渡留」」, in Kamiya Nobuyuki 紙屋敦之 (ed.), ''Kinsei Nihon ni okeru gaikoku shisetsu to shakai hen'yô 3: taikun gaikô kaitai wo ou'' 『近世日本における外国使節と社会変容（３）－大君外交解体を追う－』, Tokyo: Waseda University (2009), p45-46n45.
[[Category:Temples]]
[[Category:Sengoku Period]]
*''Japanese'': 月橋院 ''(Gekkyô-in)''
Gekkyô-in is a [[Soto|Sôtô]] [[Zen]] temple in the Momoyama neighborhood of [[Fushimi]], in southern [[Kyoto]] City. Its main object of worship is a statue of [[Shaka]] Nyorai.
During the construction of [[Fushimi castle]], the temple was temporarily moved to the [[Nishijin]] neighborhood of central Kyoto, and was operated as a [[Shingon]] branch temple of [[Engaku-ji]].
But, when Bungo-bashi (aka Kangetsu-bashi, "Moon-Viewing Bridge") was completed, [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] is said to have admired the view of the bridge and the moon from this temple (in its Fushimi location), thus giving it the name Gekkyô-in ("Moon Bridge Temple"). Zen priest [[Kishu Sokaku|Kishû Sôkaku]] resided there for a time in the 1590s, and in [[1599]] the temple was changed from Shingon to Sôtô Zen.
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==References==
*"Shiryôhen kaidai shiryô honkoku: Edo dachi ni tsuki oose watashi dome" 「史料編解題・史料翻刻「江戸立二付仰渡留」」, in Kamiya Nobuyuki 紙屋敦之 (ed.), ''Kinsei Nihon ni okeru gaikoku shisetsu to shakai hen'yô 3: taikun gaikô kaitai wo ou'' 『近世日本における外国使節と社会変容（３）－大君外交解体を追う－』, Tokyo: Waseda University (2009), p45-46n45.
[[Category:Temples]]
[[Category:Sengoku Period]]