Daienji Temple - Suginami City

Is there another temple in Tokyo that is so calm? A temple built by Ieyasu. It is a temple that is closely related to Hoshina, Goi, and Shimazu families.

It is said that it was a temple of the Satsuma lord, the Shimazu family, in Edo. Therefore, there are many graves of people related to the Satsuma Domain in the graveyard. There is also a tomb carved with the names of the 75 dead of the Satsuma clan war in the Boshin War, the Takazu Kanto Tower donated by the Shimazu family, and Rokujizo. Although it is not a big temple, it is very beautiful and worshipers come one after another. There was also a rare Kosho tower with a cheerful face, Kongo.

The precincts are well-maintained, and you can feel the atmosphere of the four seasons in a clean atmosphere. Also, in the appearance behind the main hall, the scenery including the tombstone, which is now an unrelated Buddha, has a weight backed by history and is overwhelming.

Daienji Temple is also a family temple of Hatamoto Sakai Shigemasa, a child of Sakai Shimosa Mamoru Shigetoshi, who was a vassal of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Mr. Sakai prospered as a powerful family in Owari Province, and his sect was said to be a family member who served as Owari Komoridaikan as a deacon of Owari Shugodai Kiyoshu Oda (Oda Yamato Moriya), Sakai Settsumori, Sakai Daizen Ryo, Sakai Koemon. Naomasa (Niwa Nagahide) and others are said to be of the same family. Adopted children of Shigetoshi Sakai include Hoan Oze, a samurai doctor of Toyotomi Hidetsugu Sekishiro and the author of "Taikoki" and "Nobunagaki", and Masahisa Sakai, the lord of Owari Rakuda Castle who served as the leading general in the Battle of Anegawa. There is a theory that Masahisa Sakai (former name is Hoshina Masayuki, father is Sassa Narimasa) and Sassa Narimasa (father was Sassa Narimasa, and for a while his mother's surname was also called Hoshina Masayuki) are brothers. Takako Takako (Honriin), the grandson of Takatsukasa Takako, became the regular room of Shogun Iemitsu Tokugawa (the adoptive father of his younger brother, Masayuki Hoshina, was Masamitsu Hoshina, the lord of the Shinano Takato feudal clan). As an aside, Masahisa Sakai, the uncle of Sakai Masahisa's child, Sakai Masahisa (Oda Nobunaga's small surname, who died in the Battle of Anegawa at the age of 16), is published in textbooks, etc. (National important cultural property) is donated to Chokoji Temple (Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture). Narimasa Sakai's child, Nariyoshi, was heavily used by the shogunate, having served as the Edo Shogunate Metsuke, Nikko Metsuke, and the head of the ship. The wife of the decree is the daughter of Goi Matsudaira's Matsudaira Gaiki Tadashi (the official position is Jugoi Shimotosamori). At the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, Masateru Sakai, a son of the literary scholar Hayashi Shosai (whose grandfather was Matsudaira Norisato) and the younger brother of Shogun Tokugawa Ienari's aide, Tayasu Torii, was adopted by the Sakai family. He has served as a priest, Yuto, Uraga (successor to Nagatsune Ogasawara, who is in fifth place), Mitsume, Mitsuru, and Tayasu (Tayasu Tokugawa). In addition, Masateru's adopted daughter, Tou (from the Fukuda family), is married to Takeshiro Matsuura, an explorer who named Ezochi "Hokkaido." Aizan Taniguchi, one of the founders of the Japan Nanga Association, introduced Tani Buncho's Shazanro with the introduction of Masateru and provided illustrations for Takeshiro Matsuura's Yubari Diary. The tombstone erected by Masateru Sakai still exists at Daienji Temple, which is very interesting.

It looks like a temple related to the Satsuma domain. I just saw the appearance, but it is very good.

From the beginning of the Edo period until the Meiji Restoration, the temples and temples of the Tokugawa family and Shimazu family have changed.

I heard that there are many stone carving Nio statues in Kyushu, but was it a temple related to the Satsuma domain?

It is a very interesting temple with a connection to the Tokugawa family and the Shimazu family, and the graves of the Daimyo family such as the Goi Matsudaira family and the Hoshina family, the war dead of the Boshin War, and the Saigo family. It's a local temple, but it's quite interesting to pay attention to it, so it is recommended that neighbors visit once after a walk.