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[[Image:Kenninji.jpg|right|thumb|500px|The main gate at Kennin-ji.]]
*''Established: [[1202]]''
*''Japanese'': 建仁寺 ''(Kennin-ji)''
Kennin-ji, a Buddhist temple in [[Kyoto]], is the oldest extant [[Zen]] temple still operating in Japan. It is the head of the Kennin-ji school of [[Rinzai]] Zen.
The temple was founded by [[Myoan Eisai|Myôan Eisai]] following his return from [[Song Dynasty]] China. After founding Zen temples [[Shofuku-ji|Shôfuku-ji]] in [[Hakata]] and [[Jufuku-ji]] in [[Kamakura]], he was granted land by Zen convert [[Shogun]] [[Minamoto no Yoriie]], in [[Kyoto]], between Shijô and Gojô Avenues, to the east of the [[Kamogawa]]. In [[1202]] (the second year of the [[Kennin]] era), he founded on that site a combination Zen/[[Tendai]]/[[Shingon]] Buddhist temple, calling it Kennin-ji.
On the 800th anniversary of the temple's founding, in 2002, ''[[Nihonga]]'' artist Koizumi Junsaku produced a new ceiling painting of a dragon for one of the temple's halls.
The temple owns numerous treasures, chief among them a pair of ''[[byobu|byôbu]]'' (folding screens) paintings by [[Tawaraya Sotatsu|Tawaraya Sôtatsu]] depicting Fûjin and Raijin (gods of wind and thunder) which has been designated a [[National Treasure]].
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==References==
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%BB%BA%E4%BB%81%E5%AF%BA Kennin-ji]." ''Sekai daihyakka jiten'' 世界大百科事典. Hitachi Solutions, 2012.
[[Category:Kamakura Period]]
[[Category:Temples]]
*''Established: [[1202]]''
*''Japanese'': 建仁寺 ''(Kennin-ji)''
Kennin-ji, a Buddhist temple in [[Kyoto]], is the oldest extant [[Zen]] temple still operating in Japan. It is the head of the Kennin-ji school of [[Rinzai]] Zen.
The temple was founded by [[Myoan Eisai|Myôan Eisai]] following his return from [[Song Dynasty]] China. After founding Zen temples [[Shofuku-ji|Shôfuku-ji]] in [[Hakata]] and [[Jufuku-ji]] in [[Kamakura]], he was granted land by Zen convert [[Shogun]] [[Minamoto no Yoriie]], in [[Kyoto]], between Shijô and Gojô Avenues, to the east of the [[Kamogawa]]. In [[1202]] (the second year of the [[Kennin]] era), he founded on that site a combination Zen/[[Tendai]]/[[Shingon]] Buddhist temple, calling it Kennin-ji.
On the 800th anniversary of the temple's founding, in 2002, ''[[Nihonga]]'' artist Koizumi Junsaku produced a new ceiling painting of a dragon for one of the temple's halls.
The temple owns numerous treasures, chief among them a pair of ''[[byobu|byôbu]]'' (folding screens) paintings by [[Tawaraya Sotatsu|Tawaraya Sôtatsu]] depicting Fûjin and Raijin (gods of wind and thunder) which has been designated a [[National Treasure]].
{{stub}}
==References==
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%BB%BA%E4%BB%81%E5%AF%BA Kennin-ji]." ''Sekai daihyakka jiten'' 世界大百科事典. Hitachi Solutions, 2012.
[[Category:Kamakura Period]]
[[Category:Temples]]
