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Grounds Information

Guide to Eiho-ji Temple grounds and sub-temples

Eiho-ji temple precincts and sub-temples

[National Treasure] Kannon-do (Suigetsuba)

Kannon-do
It is also called Suigetsuba or Kannonkaku with three girders, three girders, a single Mokoshi floor, Irimoya-zukuri, and cypress bark.
It was built when Muso Soseki came to Kokei in 1, the 3rd year of Shouwa (1314) at the age of 40, and is the most important Buddhist temple in the Zen Buddhist temple, that is, the main shrine.
It was designated as a national treasure in Meiji 34/3, and was redesignated as a cultural treasure in Showa 27 by the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties. The main reasons are,
  1. This style of building is an excellent representative of the Tang dynasty architecture of the late Kamakura period, following the Engakuji temple in Kamakura.
  2. It is a special architecture that is a compromise between the method of Tang-sama architecture and the method of Japanese-style architecture that has continued since the Heian period.
  3. The main part of the building has relatively few repairs after renovation, and it retains the vestiges of the time.
And so on.

The rich roof with the stretched eaves of the mushrooms, the majestic appearance that gives a solid sense of stability to the skillful equality of the shed and the Mokoshi, is a typical Zen Buddhist architectural style.
As it is said to be an eclectic style of Tang and Japanese, many Japanese methods are adopted compared to Kaisando, which was built about 40 years later. That is,
  1. The eaves are boarded with no rafters and only the corners visible at the four corners.
  2. Tokiyo is flaxed, not packed
  3. A rice dumpling is attached to the upper part of the cylinder and a pedestal is placed, but there is no rice dumpling or plinth at the bottom.
  4. The floor is covered with a wiping board so that sitting worship can be held, and the front of the Mokoshi floor is open.

Kumiko in the beautiful Hanabasama is set in the upper half of the front double door.In addition, the sitting statue of the Holy Kanzeon Bosatsu, which is designated as an important cultural property of the prefecture, is housed in the rock cave-style kitchen on the Sumidan as the principal image.

[National Treasure] Kaisando

National Treasure Kaisando
20 years after the death of Buddha Zen Master, in 1352, the year after Muso Soseki's loneliness, Senkodo was erected at Eihoji Temple. Initially, it was only the shrine part, but after that, the chapel was expanded across the phase, and it has become the current appearance. In the shrine, the sitting statue of Kaisan Muso Soseki is enshrined on the right and the sitting statue of Kaisan Buddha Zen Master is enshrined on the left. In addition, the Hojuin Kaisan Kayama Orthodox Zen Master sitting statue and the ancient mortuary tablets of Eihoji are enshrined between the phases.

The outer camp (religious hall) is girder row three ken, beam ken three ken, single, Irimoya-zukuri, and cypress bark.
This Kaisando was built in the innermost Senkobora, which went around the Wolong Pond in the scenic garden, and is said to have been home to Muso Soseki and Buddha Zen Masters. The remains of Daihoan and Daihoan are forests.

[National scenic spot] Eihoji Garden

Scenic garden
Area of ​​about 51,300 square meters (of which about 8,000 square meters is designated by the city)

Muso Soseki, who built Kannon-do, was also a very good monk. There are gardens created by Kokushi Yumemado, such as Saiho-ji Temple (moss temple) in Kyoto, Zuisen-ji Temple in Kamakura, Tenryu-ji Temple in Kyoto, and Erinji Temple in Koshu City, Yamanashi Prefecture. It is one. Built by skillfully utilizing the natural terrain and landscape, it is highly valuable as a garden of a medieval Zen Buddhist temple.
At that time, Kokeizan was said to be a mysterious area without four neighbors, but the extraordinary landscaping of Muso Soseki, who built a temple by gaining insight into the appearance of the mountains, the shape of the rocks, and the flow of water, the power is amazing.
Iwao Bonon near Kannon-do, and the waterfall that covers it is named Bonon Waterfall. The pond is called Wolong Pond and is also called Shinji Pond. The bridge over the pond is a Musai Bridge, and nowadays bridges with such a house shape are rare, and it is said that there was a time when it was a temporary clay bridge in the past, but it is said that there was this kind of thing in the garden of Kokushi, and in the past.
Details such as stonework and revetments have been renovated in posterity, but the scenery is wonderful from any of the ponds, and the structure of the Kannon-do, rocky mountains, bridges, ponds, etc. It is a garden of.
Part of the garden is usually closed to the public.
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