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*''Japanese'': 増上寺 ''(zoujou-ji)''
*''Japanese'': 増上寺 ''(zoujou-ji)''
Zôjô-ji is a [[Jodo-shu|Jôdo-shû]] Buddhist temple located in the Shiba neighborhood of [[Tokyo]], originally established in [[1393]].<ref>Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 298n283.</ref> Along with [[Kan'ei-ji]], it was one of two [[Tokugawa clan]] family temples in the Tokugawa shogunal capital of [[Edo]]. Six [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa shoguns]] are buried on the temple grounds; the graves of five more can be found at Kan'ei-ji.
Zôjô-ji is a [[Jodo-shu|Jôdo-shû]] Buddhist temple located in the Shiba neighborhood of [[Tokyo]], originally established in [[1393]].<ref>Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 298n283.</ref> Along with [[Kan'ei-ji]], it was one of two [[Tokugawa clan]] family temples in the Tokugawa shogunal capital of [[Edo]]. Six [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa shoguns]] are buried on the temple grounds; the graves of six more can be found at Kan'ei-ji.
Zôjô-ji was made a family mortuary temple of the Tokugawa clan in [[1598]]. [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]], already planning out his (future) capital, thought the location ideal for a variety of reasons, including its position to the south of [[Edo castle]], protecting the city spiritually from that direction, and providing a certain symmetry to [[Nikko Toshogu|Nikkô]] in the north. An additional worship hall was completed in [[1605]], and the entire complex was renovated or refurbished in [[1634]].
Zôjô-ji was made a family mortuary temple of the Tokugawa clan in [[1598]]. [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]], already planning out his (future) capital, thought the location ideal for a variety of reasons, including its position to the south of [[Edo castle]], protecting the city spiritually from that direction, and providing a certain symmetry to [[Nikko Toshogu|Nikkô]] in the north. An additional worship hall was completed in [[1605]], and the entire complex was renovated or refurbished in [[1634]].