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*''Established: [[1436]]''
*''Other Names'': 叡冒山 ''(Eibô-san)''
*''Japanese'': 本法寺 ''(Honpou-ji)''
Honpô-ji is a [[Nichiren Buddhism|Nichiren]] Buddhist temple in Kamigyô-ku, Kyoto, established in [[1436]] by [[Nisshin shonin|Nisshin shônin]] and originally located at Higashi-no-tôin Ayanokôji.
The temple was burned down shortly afterwards, after Nisshin invited the displeasure and ire of Shogun [[Ashikaga Yoshinori]], who had it destroyed. A new ''hondô'' was built in 1455 near Shijô-Takakura, on land granted by [[Emperor Go-Hanazono]]. The temple was moved in 1460 to Sanjô-Madenokôji, and again sometime around 1532-1555 to the site of what is today [[Seimei Shrine]], near Ichijô-Modoribashi.
In [[1587]], Honpô-ji was one of many temples which were relocated as part of [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]]'s reconstruction and reorganization of the city. It was re-established at its current location at that time. The temple's tenth abbot, [[Nittsu shonin|Nittsû shônin]], was given 1000 ''[[koku]]'' of [[jiryo|temple lands]], and Hon'ami Kôji <!--本阿弥光二-->, swordsmith and father of artist [[Honami Koetsu|Hon'ami Kôetsu]] (1558-1637), donated funds for the reconstruction of the temple's halls and grounds.
Honpô-ji thus became the family temple of the Hon'ami family, though Kôetsu himself is buried elsewhere, at [[Koetsu-ji|Kôetsu-ji]], a temple he founded in 1615. The abbot's quarters (''[[hojo|hôjô]]'') at Honpô-ji boasts a garden said to have been designed by Kôetsu, and the temple owns many paintings by Kôetsu and [[Hasegawa Tohaku|Hasegawa Tôhaku]], among others.
It burned down almost completely in a great fire which ravaged the city in [[1788]], the storehouses alone surviving, but the temple was rebuilt, most or all of its structures today dating back to that time.
==References==
*[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%9C%AC%E6%B3%95%E5%AF%BA "Honpô-ji" 本法寺]. Digital Daijisen デジタル大辞泉. Shogakukan. Accessed via Kotobank.jp, 28 November 2011.
*Official plaques at site.[http://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/4671073439/in/photostream]
*[http://eishouzan.honpouji.nichiren-shu.jp/info/info.htm Official Honpô-ji Website].
[[Category:Temples]]
*''Other Names'': 叡冒山 ''(Eibô-san)''
*''Japanese'': 本法寺 ''(Honpou-ji)''
Honpô-ji is a [[Nichiren Buddhism|Nichiren]] Buddhist temple in Kamigyô-ku, Kyoto, established in [[1436]] by [[Nisshin shonin|Nisshin shônin]] and originally located at Higashi-no-tôin Ayanokôji.
The temple was burned down shortly afterwards, after Nisshin invited the displeasure and ire of Shogun [[Ashikaga Yoshinori]], who had it destroyed. A new ''hondô'' was built in 1455 near Shijô-Takakura, on land granted by [[Emperor Go-Hanazono]]. The temple was moved in 1460 to Sanjô-Madenokôji, and again sometime around 1532-1555 to the site of what is today [[Seimei Shrine]], near Ichijô-Modoribashi.
In [[1587]], Honpô-ji was one of many temples which were relocated as part of [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]]'s reconstruction and reorganization of the city. It was re-established at its current location at that time. The temple's tenth abbot, [[Nittsu shonin|Nittsû shônin]], was given 1000 ''[[koku]]'' of [[jiryo|temple lands]], and Hon'ami Kôji <!--本阿弥光二-->, swordsmith and father of artist [[Honami Koetsu|Hon'ami Kôetsu]] (1558-1637), donated funds for the reconstruction of the temple's halls and grounds.
Honpô-ji thus became the family temple of the Hon'ami family, though Kôetsu himself is buried elsewhere, at [[Koetsu-ji|Kôetsu-ji]], a temple he founded in 1615. The abbot's quarters (''[[hojo|hôjô]]'') at Honpô-ji boasts a garden said to have been designed by Kôetsu, and the temple owns many paintings by Kôetsu and [[Hasegawa Tohaku|Hasegawa Tôhaku]], among others.
It burned down almost completely in a great fire which ravaged the city in [[1788]], the storehouses alone surviving, but the temple was rebuilt, most or all of its structures today dating back to that time.
==References==
*[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%9C%AC%E6%B3%95%E5%AF%BA "Honpô-ji" 本法寺]. Digital Daijisen デジタル大辞泉. Shogakukan. Accessed via Kotobank.jp, 28 November 2011.
*Official plaques at site.[http://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/4671073439/in/photostream]
*[http://eishouzan.honpouji.nichiren-shu.jp/info/info.htm Official Honpô-ji Website].
[[Category:Temples]]