Kan'ei-ji Temple
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(also spelled Kan'eiji or Kaneiji) is a Tendai Buddhist temple in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1625 during the Kan'ei era by Tenkai, in an attempt to emulate the powerful religious center Enryaku-ji, in Kyoto. The main object of worship is .
Key facts
- Religious building.name
- Tōeizan Kan'ei-ji Endon-in
- Religious building.image
- Five-storied_Pagoda_-_Kan'ei-ji.jpg
- Religious building.caption
- Kan'ei-ji's original five-storied pagoda in Ueno
- Religious building.location
- Uenosakuragi 1-14-11, Taito-ku, Tokyo
- Religious building.religious_affiliation
- Tendai
- Religious building.country
- Japan
- Religious building.founded_by
- Tenkai, Tokugawa Iemitsu
- Religious building.year_completed
- 1625
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Buddhist temple
- Religion
- Tendai
- Country
- Japan
- Founded by
- Tenkai
- Dedicated to
- Bhaiṣajyaguru Buddha
- Official website
- kaneiji.jp
- Image
- Kaneiji 2012.JPG
- Significant event
- Battle of Ueno
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- inception
- 1625-00-00
- revised Hepburn romanization
- Tōeizan Kan'ei-ji Endon-in
- Commons category
- Kan'ei-ji
- heritage designation
- Important Cultural Property of Japan
- street address
- 東京都台東区上野桜木1-14-11
- name in kana
- かんえいじ
- postal code
- 110-0002
- native label
- 寛永寺
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Tokugawa and Kan'ei-ji
- Battle of Ueno and the destruction of Kan'ei-ji
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
(also spelled Kan'eiji or Kaneiji) is a Tendai Buddhist temple in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1625 during the Kan'ei era by Tenkai, in an attempt to emulate the powerful religious center Enryaku-ji, in Kyoto. The main object of worship is .
It was named in a reference both to the Enryaku-ji's location atop Mount Hiei (Tōeizan means "Mount Hiei of the East"), and also after the era during which it was erected, like Enryaku-ji (named after the Enryaku year period). Because it was one of the two Tokugawa bodaiji (funeral temple; the other was Zōjō-ji) and because it was destroyed in the closing days of the war that put an end to the Tokugawa shogunate, it is inextricably linked to the Tokugawa shōguns.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kan'ei-ji Temple” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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