Kan'ei-ji Temple
(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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- History
- Tokugawa and Kan'ei-ji
- Battle of Ueno and the destruction of Kan'ei-ji
- See also
- Notes
- References
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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 .
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.