Taizō-in
Sign in to savethumb|right|Catching catfish with a gourd (Hyōnen-zu) by [[Josetsu (National Treasure) ]] is one of the sub-temples of Myōshin-ji, a Rinzai school Zen Buddhist temple in the Hanazono neighborhood of Ukyō-ku in the city of Kyoto, Japan. It is one of the few of Myōshin-ji's sub-temples which are normally open to the public.
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Myōshin-ji Temple
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Ukyō Ward
- Official website
- www.taizoin.com
- Image
- Myoshinji taizoin01n2040.jpg
Show 6 more facts
- Commons category
- Taizouin, Myoshinji
- name in kana
- たいぞういん
- inception
- 1404-00-00
- social media followers
- 7526
- official shop URL
- taizoin.stores.jp
- number of viewers/listeners
- 408550
via Wikidata · CC0
~4 min read
Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Taizō-in Garden
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|right|Catching catfish with a gourd (Hyōnen-zu) by [[Josetsu (National Treasure) ]] is one of the sub-temples of Myōshin-ji, a Rinzai school Zen Buddhist temple in the Hanazono neighborhood of Ukyō-ku in the city of Kyoto, Japan. It is one of the few of Myōshin-ji's sub-temples which are normally open to the public.
==Overview== The temple was founded in 1404 by Hatano Shigemichi, a local warlord from Echizen Province, in the Senbon-dori Matsubara neighborhood of Kyoto, with third head of Myōshin-ji, Muin Sōin (無因宗), as its founder. It was later moved to the grounds of Myōshin-ji by Niho Soshun. It was destroyed (along with the rest of Myōshin-ji during the Ōnin War, but was rebuilt in 1597 by Kinen Zenyu, a devoted devotee of Emperor Go-Nara.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Taizō-in” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
3 mapped locations