Jiganji Temple

Reconstructed main building

It is an old temple near Shichihonmatsu street. Jigenji was built to pray the repose of Sassa Narimasa’s soul. He was ordered to execute a Harakiri suicide by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The is a panel of exp...

It is called Jigenji.

Original Text

It is called (Jigenji). It is a temple of the Soto sect with the tomb of Sengoku warlord Sa 々 Narimasa and literati painter Umei Yamamoto. The principal image is the statue of Holy Kannon.

It is a temple with a universal name all over the country and Kyoto.

Original Text

This is Jigenji Temple in Nanbancho. This is a decent temple that is also included in the "100 Best Historic Sites" in Kamigyo Ward, Kyoto City. There seems to be a tomb of a celebrity (although I don't know much about my students). This is a Soto sect temple called the Sango (literally, "mountain name"), which is the title prefixed to the name of a Buddhist temple, and it seems that it was founded relatively recently (in the world of temples and shrines in Nara and Kyoto, １０００ years are not called Kosha koji Temple). At first, it was founded in Zuko Ishiya in Nishijin, but as a result of moving around, it seems to have moved to the present location ...

Takeshige 々 I am grasping the Bodhisattva of Narimasa.

Original Text

It is a temple that mourns the Bodhisattva of Sa 々 Narumasa, who was brave among the Sengoku Oda families. It is also said that it is also the family temple of the Takatsukasa family, one of the five families. This area has many temples, but it is a temple of the Soto sect with a large site.

１ The moon was under construction.

Original Text

It is a temple on Kawaramachi-dori near the Kyoto Imperial Palace. There are many attractions and restaurants nearby. １ I passed in front of this temple in the month, but it was under construction. It doesn't seem to be a tourist temple, but I would like to stop by if I have another chance.