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Nagashima Ganjoji Ruins
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Ikko-ikki stronghold founded by Rennyo's son — site of Nobunaga's Nagashima massacre of over 20,000 in 1574
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1501
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Matagi, Nagashima-cho, Kuwana, Mie
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Historic Site
Founded 1501
525 years
Overview
Ruins of a Honganji-affiliated temple that served as the nerve center of the Nagashima Ikko-ikki. Founded in 1501 by Rennyo"s sixth son, Renjun, the temple commanded the wajuu polder lands of the lower Kiso River in Ise Nagashima. It clashed with Oda Nobunaga during the Nagashima Ikko Uprising of 1570-1574. During the Third Nagashima Campaign in 1574, more than twenty thousand people inside the fo…
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Origins
Ganjoji was founded in 1501 by Renjun, the sixth son of Rennyo — the reformer of the Jodo Shinshu Honganji sect — in Nagashima, Ise Province. Exploiting the geographical advantages of the wajuu polder lands along the lower Kiso River, the temple grew into one of the three great Ikko-ikki strongholds…
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Ishiyama Honganji and the Ikko-Ikki: Rise and Fall of Japan's Most Powerful Religious Force
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Oda Nobunaga
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From 1570 to 1574, Oda Nobunaga fought fiercely against the Ikko-ikki based at Nagashima in Ise Province. In the third Nagashima campaign, his forces besieged and burned the fortress complex including Ganjoji Temple, reportedly massacring over 20,000 surrendered believers and monks, one of the worst atrocities of Nobunaga's career.
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