Honkoji - Okazaki

The main hall and the mountain gate are certified as nationally registered tangible cultural properties and Okazaki City landscape important buildings. I was fascinated by the cool and astringent gate and the luxurious main hall. Quoted below Honkoji Temple was built in 980 as a temple of the Tendai sect around the present timber town. Kaisan is a direct disciple of Jie Daishi, the founder of Enryakuji Temple on Mt. Hiei. Successive chief priests served as a separate priest of Inakuma Shrine, which is said to be the oldest shrine in Okazaki, and a temple and shrine of Shichido Garan were built adjacent to each other on a territory of 500 stones. In 1468, the 14th priest Kyoen became a disciple of the 8th Rennyo Shonin of Honganji Temple, and changed from the Tendai sect to the Shin sect. After that, due to the expansion plan of Okazaki Castle that started in 1590, the territory was forced to evict, and in 1601, it moved to this land of Kamiaonocho together with Inakuma Shrine. The Sanmon, which was erected by the donation of Izumimori Mizuno, the lord of the Okazaki domain, during the Genroku era from the latter half of the 17th century to the beginning of the 18th century, was a tower gate (two-story gate) that was not permitted at general Shinshu temples at that time, and then in 1827. It was rebuilt. The statue of Shakyamuni, which is unique to Shin Buddhism and is found in the Genroku era, is enshrined and is certified as a national registered tangible cultural property and an important landscape building in Okazaki City. In addition, the main hall, which was built in 1913, was strongly influenced by Higashi Honganji Temple, and usually has two high-class worship pillars, four high-class pillars, a flashy pillar structure, a wooden nose sculpture, and a keyaki round pillar. It is characterized by its heavy use, high ceiling, stunning sculptures in the columns, and the luxurious work of the upper part of the inner camp. As a representative building of the Shinshu temple in modern times, it is a nationally registered tangible cultural property, Okazaki City Landscape, like the Sanmon Gate. It is an important building. It is rare that the gate of the Jodo Shinshu temple is made of a tower gate, and it is a valuable structure.