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Revision as of 08:08, 14 March 2008

  • Year of foundation: 1175
  • Japanese:金戒光明寺(Konkai Koumyouji)

Konkai Kômyô-ji is the Jôdo school buddhism temple, located in Sakyô ward Kyoto city was founded by Hônen. One of the chief temple of the Jôdo school.

The main hall Miei-dô was burnt down in 1934 and reconstructed in 1944.

Bakumatsu

Konkai Kômyô-ji was the headquater of Kyoto Shugo Shoku in Bakumatsu. More than 1000 Aizu han samurai stationed in the temple. There is a grave site of the Aizu samurai who died in Kinmon Rebellion and the Battle of Toba-Fushimi.

There is the grave of Aizu Kotetsu who was a Chûgen of Aizu han and also a gang leader. After the battle of Toba-Fushimi, he mobilized his gang members to gather the bodies of abandoned dead Aizu samurai and buried them. He protected the grave site with priests of Konkai Kômyô-ji from the persecution.

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