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*''Established: [[1451]]''
*''Japanese'': 長寿寺 ''(Chôju ji)''

Chôju-ji was a Buddhist temple established in [[Naha]] in [[1451]]. It was associated with a nearby branch shrine of [[Ise Shrine]],<ref>Yokoyama Manabu 横山学, ''Ryûkyû koku shisetsu torai no kenkyû'' 琉球国使節渡来の研究, Tokyo: Yoshikawa kôbunkan (1987), 52.</ref> and on at least one occasion in the early 18th century exchanged letters with the temple of [[Seiken-ji]] (near [[Sunpu]], in what is today [[Shizuoka prefecture]]), following the [[1710]] death of Ryukyuan official Nakanishi ''chikudun'' and his burial at Seiken-ji.<ref>Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, ''Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori'' 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 209.</ref>

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==References==
*Gregory Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2019), 141.
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