A detached section of Higashi Honganji's precincts, laid out in 1641 as a stroll garden by the poet-landscape designer Ishikawa Jozan. The name 'Shosei' is said to derive from a passage in Tao Yuanming's poem 'Returning to Live in the Country.' The expansive stroll garden centers on the large Ingetsu Pond, with elegantly named pavilions such as Tekisuiken, Shukuenten, and Sochinkyo positioned alon…
Shosei-en is a stroll garden of the pond-circuit style (chisen-kaiyushiki) belonging to Higashi Honganji, the head temple of the Jodo Shinshu Otani sect. In 1641, during the reign of Tokugawa Iemitsu, the 13th abbot Sennyo is said to have received the land as a grant from the shogunate, and the cele…
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（東本願寺飛地境内）"
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