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[[File:Torinji-gate.jpg|right|thumb|400px|The main temple gate of Tôrin-ji]]
[[File:Torinji.jpg|right|thumb|400px|The main hall and bell tower of Tôrin-ji]]
*''Established: [[1614]]''
*''Japanese'': 桃林寺 ''(Tourin ji)''
Tôrin-ji is a [[Zen]] temple on [[Ishigaki Island]]. Established in [[1614]] alongside the neighboring [[Yaeyama Gongendo|Yaeyama Gongendô]], the two are considered the first, and today the oldest, Buddhist temple and Shinto shrine (respectively) in the [[Yaeyama Islands]]. Tôrin-ji is also considered the southernmost Buddhist temple in Japan. It is associated with the Myôshin-ji school of [[Rinzai]] Zen.
The temple was first established after a [[1611]] survey by [[Satsuma han]] concluded there were no Buddhist temples or Shinto shrines in the Yaeyamas, and Satsuma ordered the [[Ryukyu Kingdom]] to remedy this.
A pair of [[Nio|Niô]] guardian statues installed in the temple's main gate are the oldest surviving Buddhist sculptures made by Ryukyuan sculptors. Dating to [[1737]], they were carved from local magnolia wood (J: ''ogatama no ki'') by a sculptor named Kudeken Shôchû 久手堅昌忠, assisted by Kabira Shôshô 川平正肖 and Kohama Tômei 小浜當明.<ref>All three bearing the bottom-level aristocratic or court title of ''niya'' 仁屋 typically granted to commoners in the service of the kingdom. "Kongô rikishi ryûzô" 金剛力士立像 explanatory plaque on-site.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/54262406380/sizes/h/]</ref>
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[[Category:Ryukyu]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Temples]]
[[Category:Art and Architecture]]
[[File:Torinji.jpg|right|thumb|400px|The main hall and bell tower of Tôrin-ji]]
*''Established: [[1614]]''
*''Japanese'': 桃林寺 ''(Tourin ji)''
Tôrin-ji is a [[Zen]] temple on [[Ishigaki Island]]. Established in [[1614]] alongside the neighboring [[Yaeyama Gongendo|Yaeyama Gongendô]], the two are considered the first, and today the oldest, Buddhist temple and Shinto shrine (respectively) in the [[Yaeyama Islands]]. Tôrin-ji is also considered the southernmost Buddhist temple in Japan. It is associated with the Myôshin-ji school of [[Rinzai]] Zen.
The temple was first established after a [[1611]] survey by [[Satsuma han]] concluded there were no Buddhist temples or Shinto shrines in the Yaeyamas, and Satsuma ordered the [[Ryukyu Kingdom]] to remedy this.
A pair of [[Nio|Niô]] guardian statues installed in the temple's main gate are the oldest surviving Buddhist sculptures made by Ryukyuan sculptors. Dating to [[1737]], they were carved from local magnolia wood (J: ''ogatama no ki'') by a sculptor named Kudeken Shôchû 久手堅昌忠, assisted by Kabira Shôshô 川平正肖 and Kohama Tômei 小浜當明.<ref>All three bearing the bottom-level aristocratic or court title of ''niya'' 仁屋 typically granted to commoners in the service of the kingdom. "Kongô rikishi ryûzô" 金剛力士立像 explanatory plaque on-site.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/54262406380/sizes/h/]</ref>
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==References==
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[[Category:Ryukyu]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Temples]]
[[Category:Art and Architecture]]
