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In 1897, the Nishi Hongwanji in Kyoto, Japan began sending official ministers to establish temples for Japanese immigrants in Hawaii and the mainland United States. [2] The first was Kenjun Miyamoto, who laid the groundwork for the ministry. Honi Satomi was the first priest, serving from 1898 until 1900, when he returned to Japan.
Ino Tadataka: Complete map of greater Japan coastal area; large map near Atsumi Peninsula. Inō Tadataka (伊能忠敬, 1745–1818) started learning Western astronomy when he was 52 years old. On order of the shogun he dedicated 16 years between 1800 and 1817 to survey all Japanese coastlines, but died before a complete map of Japan could be ...
Hawaii Shingon Mission or Shingon Shu Hawaii (Japanese: 真言宗ハワイ別院, Shingonshu Hawai Betsuin, formerly the Shingon Sect Mission of Hawaii) located at 915 Sheridan Street in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi is one of the most elaborate displays of Japanese Buddhist temple architecture in Hawaiʻi.
Churches in Honolulu (1 C, 11 P) R. Royal Mausoleum (Mauna ʻAla) (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Religious buildings and structures in Honolulu"
The Rush Hour of the Gods: A Study of the New Religious Movements in Japan. Macmillan. ISBN 0-02-583200-X. Murakami, Shigeyosu and Paul L. Swanson, Religion and Society in Modern Japan:.., Asian Humanities Press, 1991, 239–256. Shibata, Kentaro (1993). Daiseishu, Great and Holy Master. L.H. Yoko Shuppan Co.Ltd. Tebecis, Andris K. (2004).
Hsu Yun Temple [1] [2] is claimed to be [3] Hawaii's (possibly the western world's [4]) very first Chinese Buddhist Hall.There is also putative claim that it was, on construction, the largest Chinese Temple in the history of the Americas (6,000 sq ft).
The Kyoto Gardens of Honolulu Memorial Park is a cemetery located in the eastern half of the Honolulu Memorial Park, 22 Craigside Place, Honolulu, Hawaii. Its three-tiered Sanju Pagoda, the Kinkaku-ji Temple, and Mirror Gardens are fine examples of Japanese traditional-style structures and gardens built outside Japan.
A map of Japan currently stored at Kanazawa Bunko depicts Japan and surrounding countries, both real and imaginary. The date of creation is unknown but probably falls within the Kamakura period . It is one of the oldest surviving Gyōki-type maps of Japan.