Kan'ei-ji

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Kan'ei-ji (東叡山寛永寺, Tōeizan Kan'ei-ji^?) is a Tendai Buddhist temple in Tokyo, founded in 1625 by Tenkai.

Many temple structures were razed in the great Mereiki fire of 1657-- link to Columbia University image of folding screen incorporating view of Kan'ei-ji. A new hall was constructed inside the enclosure of Kan'ei-ji in 1698.^[1]

Kan'ei-ji's five-story pagoda and the Tōshōgu Shrine were amongst the gems of the old temple enclosure. Both stand undisturbed by the passage of years since the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.

During the height of the Boshin War, the Battle of Ueno took place at the temple, and resulted in the temple's destruction.

The devastated temple buildings and gardens were not restored. Instead, Ueno Park was created on the former grounds of Kan'ei-ji.-- link to Japanese National Museum, "130 Years of Ueno Park"

[edit] References

• Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon, tr. par M. Isaac Titsingh avec l'aide de plusieurs interprètes attachés au comptoir hollandais de Nangasaki; ouvrage re., complété et cor. sur l'original japonais-chinois, accompagné de notes et précédé d'un Aperçu d'histoire mythologique du Japon, par M. J. Klaproth. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. ...Click link for digitized, full-text copy of this book (in French)

[edit] External links

• Link to Japanese National Tourist Organization web page
• Link to contemporary snapshot images of Kan'ei-ji five-story pagoda
• National Diet Library: photograph of Kan'ei-ji pagoda (1896); photograph of Toshogu Shrine at Ueno (1911)
• Link to "The battle of Toeizan Temple on Mount Sanno at Ueno," Yoshitoshi Tsukioka (1874)

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