Zenkokuji (Kagurazaka Bishamonten)
東京都
Founded by Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1595, this Kagurazaka Bishamonten temple is guarded by stone tigers instead of komainu—one of the Three Great Bishamonten of Edo.
A Nichiren temple founded in 1595 by Butsujo-in Nissei, the twelfth chief priest of Ikegami Honmon-ji, at the behest of Tokugawa Ieyasu, originally in Bakurocho. The mountain name is Chingo-zan; the principal image is Sanposon. After repeated fires, the temple moved to Kojimachi, then to Kagurazaka in 1793. The enshrined Bishamonten statue (Shinjuku Ward Designated Cultural Property), a wooden fig…
Founded in 1595 in Bakurocho by Butsujo-in Nissei at the behest of Tokugawa Ieyasu as an official prayer temple. Nissei was the son of Regent Nijo Akizane, who reportedly gifted the Bishamonten statue.
The Great Fire of 1670 destroyed the Bakurocho buildings; the temple relocated to Kojimachi. Afte…
Flourishing trade, new-shop openings, successful deals. A central prayer at Inari and Ebisu shrines.
Derived from the enshrined deity "三宝尊(安置: 毘沙門天)"
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