Pagoda of Kan'ei-ji

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. History The Tiantai teaching was first brought to Japan by the Chinese monk Jianzhen (鑑眞 Jp Ganjin in the middle of the 8th century, but Buddhism is a family of beliefs and practices was a Japanese Tendai Buddhist monk of the Azuchi-Momoyama and early Edo periods

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. The, also known as the Furisode Fire, destroyed 60-70% of the Japanese capital city of Edo (now Tokyo) on March 2, 1657, this is the third year 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. The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the, and the, was a feudal regime of Japan established by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the Shoguns of

Devastation of Ueno after the battle. 1868 photograph.

During the height of the Boshin War, the Battle of Ueno took place at the temple, and resulted in the temple's destruction. The was a Civil war in Japan, fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and those seeking to return political power to the The Battle of Ueno (Japanese上野戦争 was a battle of the Boshin War, which occurred on July 4, 1868 ( May 15 by the lunar calendar between

The devastated temple buildings and gardens were not restored. Instead, Ueno Park was created on the former grounds of Kan'ei-ji. is a spacious public park located in the Ueno section of Taito Tokyo, Japan. -- link to Japanese National Museum, "130 Years of Ueno Park"

References

• Titsingh, Isaac. Isaac Titsingh ( 10 January 1745 in Amsterdam – 2 February 1812 in Paris) was a Dutch surgeon scholar merchant-trader (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon, tr. Hayashi Gahō (林鵞峰 (1618 &ndash 1688 also known as Hayashi Shunsai, was a Japanese Neo-Confucian scholar teacher and administrator in the system of is a 17th century chronicle of the serial reigns of Japanese emperors with brief notes about some of the noteworthy events or other happenings during each period 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. Julius Heinrich Klaproth (1783-1835 German Orientalist and traveller Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (RAS was according to its Royal Charter of August 11, 1824 ...Click link for digitized, full-text copy of this book (in French)

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)