2007年7月15日日曜日

Nishi-Hongan-ji of rain


It has gone near Nishi-Hongan-ji. It is high school days to see Nishi-Hongan-ji for the first time. Kyoto was visited in the school excursion. I remember having been overwhelmed to the size anyway at that time. Though it was not by thinking at that time even if it will live in Kyoto for four years, and the diary of Nishi-Hongan-ji will be written surely. It seems not to end yet though repair work was done when seeing for the first time.

Nishi-Hongan-ji seems to have been originally a name of Hongan-ji. Ieyasu Tokugawa, who is well known for his luck in surviving this turbulent age while successively serving famous warlords, gave the temple estate in the east to owner of Hongan-ji in Edo period. And, when Hongan-ji divided into two sections in 1602, the temple where 12 generation owner had opened was called Higashi-hongan-ji. And, Hongan-ji seems to have come to be called Nishi-Hongan-ji today. After that, it has become the base ground of Shinsen-gumi, who was a group of samurai warriors based in Kyoto, at the end of Edo Period. It seems not to have moved from this land for years of 400 thereafter.

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