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Gesshō-ji
is a Jōdō-shū Buddhist temple in the Tono Nakahara-cho neighborhood of the city of Matsue, Shimane Prefecture Japan. It is the ''bodaiji'' of the Matsudaira clan, the ''daimyō'' of Matsue Domain during the Edo period. The ''daimyō'' cemetery containing the graves of nine generations of the rulers of Matsue was designated as a National Historic Site in 1996. Overview Gesshō-ji is located adjacent to Matsue Municipal First Junior High School. TIt was the location of a Zen temple called Toun-ji, whch had been in ruins for a long time, but Matsudaira Naomasa, the first ''daimyō'' of Matsue, rebuilt it in 1664 as the ''bodaiji'' to house the memorial tablet of his birth mother, whose dharma name was Gesshō-in. After Naomasa died in Edo in 1666, his remains were taken back to Matsue per his deathbed wishes, and a mausoleum was built within the temple grounds. The gate of this mausoleum is a Shimane Prefecture Tangible Cultural Property. The mausoleums of the first to ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Historic Sites Of Japan (Shimane)
This list is of the Monuments of Japan, Historic Sites of Japan located within the Prefectures of Japan, Prefecture of Shimane Prefecture, Shimane. National Historic Sites As of 1 July 2021, sixty Sites have been Cultural Properties of Japan, designated as being of national Values (heritage), significance; the San'indō and Tsuwano Domain Kamei clan cemetery with the Grave of Kamei Korenori span the prefectural borders with Tottori Prefecture, Tottori. Prefectural Historic Sites As of 24 June 2021, fifty-nine Sites have been designated as being of prefectural importance. Municipal Historic Sites As of 1 May 2020, a further one hundred and fifty-seven Sites have been designated as being of municipal importance. See also * Cultural Properties of Japan * Iwami Province * Izumo Province * Oki Province * Shimane Museum of Ancient Izumo * List of Places of Scenic Beauty of Japan (Shimane) * List of Cultural Properties of Japan – paintings (Shimane) References Externa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matsue, Shimane
is the capital city of Shimane Prefecture, Japan, located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. , the city had an estimated population of 196,748 in 91287 households and a population density of 340 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Matsue is home to the Tokugawa-era Matsue Castle, one of the last surviving feudal castles in Japan. Geography Matsue is located at the northernmost point of Shimane Prefecture, between Lake Shinji and Nakaumi on the banks of the Ohashi River connecting the two lakes, though the city proper reaches the Sea of Japan coast. Matsue is the center of the Lake Shinji-Nakaumi metropolitan area, which has a population of approximately 600,000 in 2020. The Lake Shinji-Nakaumi metropolitan area is the fourth largest on the Sea of Japan coast after Niigata, Greater Kanazawa, and Fukui. Climate Matsue has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification ''Cfa'') with very warm summers and cool winters. Precipitation is abundant throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buddhist
Buddhism, also known as Buddhadharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and List of philosophies, philosophical tradition based on Pre-sectarian Buddhism, teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century Before the Common Era, BCE. It is the Major religious groups, world's fourth-largest religion, with about 500 million followers, known as Buddhists, who comprise four percent of the global population. It arose in the eastern Gangetic plain as a movement in the 5th century BCE, and gradually spread throughout much of Asia. Buddhism has subsequently played a major role in Asian culture and spirituality, eventually spreading to Western world, the West in the 20th century. According to tradition, the Buddha instructed his followers in a path of bhavana, development which leads to Enlightenment in Buddhism, awakening and moksha, full liberation from ''Duḥkha, dukkha'' (). He regarded this path as a Middle Way between extremes su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matsudaira Naomasa
The was a Japanese samurai clan that descended from the Minamoto clan. It originated in and took its name from Matsudaira village, in Mikawa Province (modern-day Aichi Prefecture). During the Sengoku period, the chieftain of the main line of the Matsudaira clan, Matsudaira Motoyasu became a powerful regional daimyo under Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi and changed his name to Tokugawa Ieyasu. He subsequently seized power as the first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate which ruled Japan during the Edo period until the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Under the Tokugawa shogunate, many cadet branches of the clan retained the Matsudaira surname, and numerous new branches were formed in the decades after Ieyasu. Some of those branches were also of ''daimyō'' status. After the Meiji Restoration and the abolition of the ''han'' system, the Tokugawa and Matsudaira clans became part of the new ''kazoku'' nobility. Origins The Matsudaira clan originated in Mikawa Province. Its origins ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
