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*''Established: [[1480]]''
*''Japanese'': 西見寺 ''(Saiken-ji)''
*''Japanese'': 西見寺 ''(Saiken-ji)''
Saiken-ji is a [[Soto Zen|Sôtô Zen]] Buddhist temple in [[Hamamatsu]], [[Shizuoka prefecture]].
Saiken-ji is a [[Soto Zen|Sôtô Zen]] Buddhist temple in [[Hamamatsu]], [[Shizuoka prefecture]].
The temple's grounds contain the graves of two Ryukyuan nobles, members of [[Ryukyuan embassies to Edo]]. One is the grave of Nakanishi ''chikudun''<!--燕姓中西筑登之-->, a member of the [[1710]] mission who died on 11/2 of that year. The other belongs to Takamine ''[[peechin]]'', also known as [[Gi Kokka]]<!--魏国香-->, a member of the [[1850]] mission who died while in Japan. A red and gold-colored structure in [[Okinawan architecture|Okinawan style]], complete with a ''[[shisa]]'' on top, was erected in 2004 to help protect the already worn tombstone of Takamine ''peechin'' from the elements.<ref>''Shirarezaru Ryûkyû shisetsu'' 知られざる琉球使節, Fukuyama-shi Tomonoura rekishi minzoku shiryôkan (2006), 93.</ref>
Established in the village of Terashima (today, the Terashima neighborhood of Hamamatsu) in [[1480]], the temple relocated to Hirata (another area of modern-day Hamamatsu City) in [[1616]]. The temple was destroyed by air raids in 1945, but was rebuilt in 1961. In 1991, the temple relocated again, to its current location in the Nishigamoe neighborhood of Hamamatsu.
The temple's grounds contain the graves of two Ryukyuan nobles, members of [[Ryukyuan embassies to Edo]]. One is the grave of Nakanishi ''chikudun''<!--燕姓中西筑登之-->, a member of the [[1710]] mission who died on 11/2 of that year. The other belongs to Takamine ''[[peechin]]'', also known as [[Gi Kokka]]<!--魏国香-->, the ''gieisei'' of the [[1850]] mission, who also died while in Japan. A red and gold-colored structure in [[Okinawan architecture|Okinawan style]], complete with a ''[[shisa]]'' on top, was erected in 2004 to help protect the already worn tombstone of Takamine ''peechin'' from the elements.<ref>''Shirarezaru Ryûkyû shisetsu'' 知られざる琉球使節, Fukuyama-shi Tomonoura rekishi minzoku shiryôkan (2006), 93.</ref>
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==References==
==References==
*Watanabe Miki. "[http://www.geocities.jp/ryukyu_history/Japan_Ryukyu/Main.html Nihon ni okeru Ryûkyû shiseki]." (personal website)
*Watanabe Miki. "[http://www.geocities.jp/ryukyu_history/Japan_Ryukyu/Main.html Nihon ni okeru Ryûkyû shiseki]." (personal website)
*Kimura Yoshisato 木村吉聡 (ed.), ''Ryukyu 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), 88-89.
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