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[[File:Ikegami-pagoda.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The pagoda at Ikegami Honmonji. Dating to [[1608]], it has been designated an [[Important Cultural Property]].]]
[[File:Ikegami-Oneida.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The gravestone of the crew of the ''[[USS Oneida]]'', which sank in Tokyo Bay in [[1870]]]]
*''Established: [[1274]]? or [[1282]]''
*''Other Names'': 本門寺 ''(honmonji)'', 長栄山 ''(choueizan)''
*''Japanese'': 池上本門寺 ''(ikegami honmonji)''
Honmonji is a [[Nichiren Buddhism|Nichiren-shû]] Buddhist temple in the Ikegami neighborhood of [[Tokyo|Tokyo's]] [[Ota-ku|Ôta-ku]]. It is one of the top four temples of the Nichiren sect, and is said to have been the site of [[Nichiren|Nichiren's]] death.
The residence of [[Ikegami Munenaka]] previously stood on the site, which is sometimes said to have been converted into a temple in [[1274]].<ref>"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%9C%AC%E9%96%80%E5%AF%BA?dic=daijisen Honmonji]," ''Digital Daijisen'' デジタル大辞泉, Shogakukan.</ref> Nichiren himself stayed with Munenaka at the latter's residence for some time in [[1282]], while attempting to recuperate from an illness, but died there in the end. Many sources assert the temple to have not been founded until after this event.
The temple's pagoda, which dates to [[1608]], has been designated an [[Important Cultural Property]].
Prominent figures buried at Ikegami Honmonji include the crew of the ''[[USS Oneida]]'', which sank in Tokyo Bay in [[1870]], as well as [[kabuki]] actors [[Ichikawa Sadanji I]], [[Ichikawa Sadanji II]], [[Ichikawa Raizo VIII|Ichikawa Raizô VIII]], [[Kataoka Nizaemon IX]], [[Kataoka Nizaemon XIII]], and [[Kataoka Ichizo III|Kataoka Ichizô III]], as well as painters [[Kano Tanyu|Kanô Tan'yû]] and [[Kano Takanobu|Kanô Takanobu]], the [[Shooin|wife]]<!--正応院--> and [[Honjoin|daughter]]<!--本浄院、あま姫、瑤林院殿浄秀日芳大姉--> of [[Kato Kiyomasa]], and a number of women of the [[Kishu Tokugawa clan|Kishû Tokugawa clan]].
==References==
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%9C%AC%E9%96%80%E5%AF%BA?dic=daijisen Honmonji]," ''Sekai daihyakka jiten'' 世界大百科事典, Hitachi Solutions, 2012.
*"[http://www.kabuki21.com/tombes.php Actors Graves]," Kabuki21.com.
*[http://honmonji.jp/01what/04reiho/reiho_index.html Ikegami Honmonji Official Site]
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==External Links==
*[https://maps.google.com/maps?q=%E6%B1%A0%E4%B8%8A%E6%9C%AC%E9%96%80%E5%AF%BA&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=35.579499,139.70526&spn=0.010035,0.021136&sll=37.269174,-119.306607&sspn=10.048247,21.643066&t=h&z=16&iwloc=A Ikegami Honmonji on Google Maps]
[[Category:Temples]]
[[Category:Kamakura Period]]
[[File:Ikegami-Oneida.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The gravestone of the crew of the ''[[USS Oneida]]'', which sank in Tokyo Bay in [[1870]]]]
*''Established: [[1274]]? or [[1282]]''
*''Other Names'': 本門寺 ''(honmonji)'', 長栄山 ''(choueizan)''
*''Japanese'': 池上本門寺 ''(ikegami honmonji)''
Honmonji is a [[Nichiren Buddhism|Nichiren-shû]] Buddhist temple in the Ikegami neighborhood of [[Tokyo|Tokyo's]] [[Ota-ku|Ôta-ku]]. It is one of the top four temples of the Nichiren sect, and is said to have been the site of [[Nichiren|Nichiren's]] death.
The residence of [[Ikegami Munenaka]] previously stood on the site, which is sometimes said to have been converted into a temple in [[1274]].<ref>"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%9C%AC%E9%96%80%E5%AF%BA?dic=daijisen Honmonji]," ''Digital Daijisen'' デジタル大辞泉, Shogakukan.</ref> Nichiren himself stayed with Munenaka at the latter's residence for some time in [[1282]], while attempting to recuperate from an illness, but died there in the end. Many sources assert the temple to have not been founded until after this event.
The temple's pagoda, which dates to [[1608]], has been designated an [[Important Cultural Property]].
Prominent figures buried at Ikegami Honmonji include the crew of the ''[[USS Oneida]]'', which sank in Tokyo Bay in [[1870]], as well as [[kabuki]] actors [[Ichikawa Sadanji I]], [[Ichikawa Sadanji II]], [[Ichikawa Raizo VIII|Ichikawa Raizô VIII]], [[Kataoka Nizaemon IX]], [[Kataoka Nizaemon XIII]], and [[Kataoka Ichizo III|Kataoka Ichizô III]], as well as painters [[Kano Tanyu|Kanô Tan'yû]] and [[Kano Takanobu|Kanô Takanobu]], the [[Shooin|wife]]<!--正応院--> and [[Honjoin|daughter]]<!--本浄院、あま姫、瑤林院殿浄秀日芳大姉--> of [[Kato Kiyomasa]], and a number of women of the [[Kishu Tokugawa clan|Kishû Tokugawa clan]].
==References==
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%9C%AC%E9%96%80%E5%AF%BA?dic=daijisen Honmonji]," ''Sekai daihyakka jiten'' 世界大百科事典, Hitachi Solutions, 2012.
*"[http://www.kabuki21.com/tombes.php Actors Graves]," Kabuki21.com.
*[http://honmonji.jp/01what/04reiho/reiho_index.html Ikegami Honmonji Official Site]
<references/>
==External Links==
*[https://maps.google.com/maps?q=%E6%B1%A0%E4%B8%8A%E6%9C%AC%E9%96%80%E5%AF%BA&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=35.579499,139.70526&spn=0.010035,0.021136&sll=37.269174,-119.306607&sspn=10.048247,21.643066&t=h&z=16&iwloc=A Ikegami Honmonji on Google Maps]
[[Category:Temples]]
[[Category:Kamakura Period]]