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Fushimi Castle (伏見城, Fushimi-jō), also known as Momoyama Castle (桃山城, Momoyama-jō) or Fushimi-Momoyama Castle, is a Japanese castle located in Fushimi Ward, Kyoto. Fushimi Castle was constructed from 1592 to 1594 by Toyotomi Hideyoshi at the end of the Sengoku period as his retirement residence.
Chōgaku-ji (Japanese: 長岳寺) is a Japanese Buddhist temple of the Kōyasan Shingon-shū sect in the city of Tenri in Nara Prefecture, Japan. [1] It is located within Yamato-Aogaki Quasi-National Park [2] along the Yamanobe no michi (Japanese: 山辺の道), the oldest road in Japan, [3] at the foot of Mt. Ryūō in the Sanuki Mountains. [4]
The Japanese word for a Buddhist monastery is tera (寺) (kun reading), and the same kanji also has the pronunciation ji (on reading), so temple names frequently end in -dera or -ji. Another ending, -in (院), is normally used to refer to minor temples. Examples of temple names that have these suffixes are Kiyomizu-dera, Enryaku-ji and Kōtoku-in.
The former temple complex has the main hall and pagoda lined up on the left and right (east and west), similar to the layout of the western precincts of Hōryū-ji, but as the main hall is built on the west and the pagoda on the east, which is the opposite of Hōryū-ji Temple, and this style is called the "Hokki-ji style temple complex layout."
Fukusai-ji, the second temple, was founded in 1628 by members of the Nagasaki Chinese community, predominantly merchants from Southern Fujian and their families. [2] It was built partially in response to the implementation of the anti-Christian motivated tearuke system that required citizens registered to prove their affiliation with a Buddhist ...
Buddhism brought to Japan the idea of permanent shrines and the presence of verandas, stone lanterns, and elaborate gates are some which are used both in a Shinto shrine and a Buddhist temple. The composition of a Shinto shrine is extremely variable, and none of its possible features are necessarily present.
Ordinarily, the designs were used to commemorate a visit to a temple or shrine and printed with simple monochromatic schemes, but eventually aesthetic sense gave way to colorful variations and designs. In the pleasure quarters of Kyoto, colorful designs were employed on senjafuda and used in place of traditional business cards.
Nōfuku-ji (能福寺) is a Buddhist temple that, from the legend, was founded in 805 by the monk Saichō, in Kita Sakasegawa, Hyōgo-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Saichō (of the Tendai sect) placed a statue of Yakushi Nyorai of his own making in the temple hall and named the temple Nōfuku Gokoku Mitsu-ji ( 能福護国密寺 ) .