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[[File:Tennoji-yanaka.jpg|right|thumb|500px|The main gate at Yanaka Tennô-ji, with the bronze Buddha and main buildings visible beyond]]

[[File:Tennoji-yanaka.jpg|right|thumb|500px|The main gate at Yanaka Tennô-ji, with the bronze Buddha and main buildings visible beyond]]

*''Established: late [[Kamakura period]], Seki Chôyô<!--関長耀-->''

*''Established: c. [[1394]]-[[1427]]''

*''Other Names'': 長耀山感応寺 ''(Chôyôzan Kan'ô-ji)''

*''Other Names'': 長耀山感応寺 ''(Chôyôzan Kan'ô-ji)''

*''Japanese'': 谷中天王寺 ''(Yanaka Tennou-ji)''

*''Japanese'': 谷中天王寺 ''(Yanaka Tennou-ji)''

Tennô-ji is a Buddhist temple in [[Asakusa]], [[Tokyo]], which neighbors and is closely associated with [[Yanaka Cemetery]].

Tennô-ji is a [[Tendai]] Buddhist temple in [[Asakusa]], [[Tokyo]], which is closely associated with the neighboring [[Yanaka Cemetery]]. It is one of only a number of temples in the city established prior to the [[Edo period]].

Much of the surrounding neighborhood was, during the [[Edo period]], within the grounds of the temple. The temple, originally known as Chôyôzan Kan'ô-ji or Kannô-ji, is said to originate in the late [[Kamakura period]], with a prominent local family who were adherents of [[Nichiren Buddhism]].

The temple, originally known as Chôyôzan Kan'ô-ji or Kannô-ji, was officially founded around [[1394]] to [[1427]], but traces its origins to a visit by [[Nichiren]] to [[Seki Nagateru]]<!--関長耀-->, the local lord, in the 13th century. Nichiren is said to have left a sculpture of himself with Seki at that time, for which Seki built a small structure to house it, thus marking the initial origins of what would later become a proper temple.

In [[1698]], on the orders of the [[Tokugawa shogunate|shogunate]], the temple was converted from Nichiren-shû to [[Tendai]]; it was then renamed Gokokuzan Tennô-ji in [[1833]].

Large public lotteries were held at Kannô-ji, as well as at [[Ryusen-ji|Ryûsen-ji]] in Meguro, and [[Yushima Tenjin Shrine]] in Ueno, during the Edo period. These three events thus came to be known as the "Three Lotteries."

In the early [[Meiji period]], a portion of the temple's grounds was given over to the City of Tokyo, and made into Yanaka Cemetery.

In [[1698]], on the orders of the [[Tokugawa shogunate|shogunate]], the temple was converted from [[Nichiren Buddhism|Nichiren-shû]] to Tendai; it was then renamed Gokokuzan Tennô-ji in [[1833]]. Much of the surrounding neighborhood was, during the Edo period, within the grounds of the temple. In the early [[Meiji period]], a portion of the temple's grounds was given over to the City of Tokyo, and made into Yanaka Cemetery.

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