Saioku-ji

Saioku-ji (柴屋寺), is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Myōshin-ji branch of Rinzai school of Japanese Zen located in Mariko-juku, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka, Japan. Its main image is a statue of Juichimen Kannon. The Japanese garden at this temple was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1936 and national Place of Scenic Beauty, with the borders of the historical site expanded in 1970.[1]

Saioku-ji
柴屋寺
Religion
AffiliationBuddhism
DeityJuichimen Kannon
RiteRinzai school of Japanese Zen
Location
LocationMariko 3316, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka-shi, Shizuoka 411-0037
Country Japan
Saioku-ji
Saioku-ji (Japan)
Geographic coordinates34°57′19.50″N 138°20′29.69″E
Architecture
FounderImagawa Ujichika
Completed1504

History

Saioku-ji was founded in 1504 by Imagawa Ujichika, on the site of the hermitage of Sōchō (1448-1542), the noted renga poet and adviser to his father, Imagawa Yoshitada. After the fall of the Imagawa clan, the temple received the patronage of the Tokugawa shogunate.

The temple was nicknamed "temple of the moon" or "temple of bamboo" in literature and memorialized in haiku and other poetry by travelers on the Tōkaidō. Its garden makes use of the borrowed scenery technique, incorporating views of surrounding mountains, and is patterned after the garden of Ginkaku-ji in Kyoto. The precincts include a shoin and a chashitsu in a bamboo grove that was transplanted from Higashiyama in Kyoto.

See also

References
  1. "柴屋寺庭園" (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs.
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