Koenji Temple (Shin-Kemigawa)
千葉県
Tendai family temple established in the Hanamigawa riverside farming community around 1300, conducting ancestral rites for generations with Edo-period stone Buddhas still standing in the grounds
A Tendai sect temple in Kemigawa, Hanamigawa-ku, Chiba, an ancient temple that has carried the faith of the Shin-Kemigawa area with Amida Nyorai as principal deity. The Tendai sect opened by Saicho on Mt. Hiei is the mother school of Japanese Buddhism, possessing a comprehensive Buddhist philosophy fusing the universal teachings of the Lotus Sutra with Pure Land faith. It was founded in the farmin…
Koenji Temple is said to have been founded around 1300, during the late Kamakura period. Established in the farming community of Kemigawa, it has long served as a family temple for the villages along the Hanamigawa River, providing funerary rites and ancestral memorial services. During the medieval …
Cleansing impurity, spiritual purification, driving away evil. Rooted in misogi ablutions and goma fire rites.
Derived from the enshrined deity "阿弥陀如来"
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