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Hokoji
京都府
Site of the Bell Inscription Incident that triggered the Siege of Osaka, where Toyotomi Hideyoshi built his Great Buddha
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1595
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Temple
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527-2 Chaya-cho, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto
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Temple
Founded 1595
431 years
Enshrined Deity
盧舎那仏
Buddhist Sect
Tendai
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Overview
Hokoji is a Tendai-sect temple founded in 1595 by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to erect a Great Buddha modeled on the Todaiji Great Buddha. It is an extremely important site in Japanese history as the setting of the "Bell Inscription Incident" (Kane-mei Jiken): the inscription "Kokka Ankyo" (National Peace) and "Kunshin Houraku" (Loyalty) on the temple bell was taken as a deliberate insult by Tokugawa Ieyas…
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Hokoji was founded in 1595 by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to erect a Great Buddha modeled on the Great Buddha of Todaiji in Nara. The Great Buddha Hall was a colossal structure approximately 50 meters in height, but it collapsed in the great earthquake of 1596. After Hideyoshi's death, his son Hideyori conti…
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Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Taiko, Ruler of All
Age 58 at founding
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Hokoji is a Tendai-sect temple founded in 1595 by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to erect a Great Buddha modeled on the Todaiji Great Buddha. Stone walls and earthworks in the precincts are preserved as evidence of the Toyotomi clan's rise and fall.
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