Manshu-ji
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- Japanese': 満舟寺 (Manshuu-ji)
Manshû-ji is a Buddhist temple in Mitarai, Hiroshima prefecture, said to have been founded by Taira no Kiyomori when, caught in a storm on his way to Kyoto, he came ashore there. Images enshrined there include one of the bodhisattva Jizô associated with the curing of disease, and one of the 11-headed bodhisattva Kannon.
The temple grounds include the grave of haikai poet Kurita Chodô. A hengaku plaque hanging in the main hall of the temple was created by Kurita copying a work of calligraphy by Ryukyuan scholar-official Ryô Kôchi; the original work of calligraphy is also in the temple's collection.[1]
References
- Plaques at Ondo Tourist Cultural Center Uzushio おんど観光文化会館うずしお, Kure, Hiroshima pref.[1]
- ↑ Shirarezaru Ryûkyû shisetsu 知られざる琉球使節, Fukuyama-shi Tomonoura rekishi minzoku shiryôkan (2006), 37.; plaques on-site at Manshû-ji.; Mitarai tsûshin 御手洗通信 no. 2, Aug 1997, p2.; Gallery labels, "Kuninda - Ryûkyû to Chûgoku no kakehashi," special exhibit, Okinawa Prefectural Museum, Sept 2014.; Naha shishi 那覇市史 vol 6 下, Naha City Office (1980), 794-795.; Kimura Yoshisato 木村吉聡 (ed.), Ryûkyû shisetsu no Edo nobori to Mitarai 琉球使節の江戸上りと御手洗, Shiomachi kankô kôryû Center 潮待ち館観光交流センター (2001), 18-21.
