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. Its honorary '' sangō'' prefix is .

History

The temple was originally located in Shingū and called Tachibanazan Baigaku-ji (立花山梅岳寺), a

Sōtō Sōtō Zen or is the largest of the three traditional sects of Zen in Japanese Buddhism (the others being Rinzai school, Rinzai and Ōbaku). It is the Japanese line of the Chinese Caodong school, Cáodòng school, which was founded during the ...

temple. In 1587, however,

Tachibana Muneshige , was a Japanese ''samurai'', known in his youth as Senkumamaru (千熊丸) and alternatively called Tachibana Munetora (立花宗虎 or 立花統虎), during the Azuchi–Momoyama period and an Edo-period ''daimyō''. He was the eldest biol ...

who was granted the three districts of

Chikugo Province was a province of Japan in the area of northern Kyūshū, corresponding to part of southwestern Fukuoka Prefecture. Chikugo bordered on Higo and Chikugo to the southeast, and Chikuzen to the north and east, Bungo to the east and Hizen to t ...

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and Mizuma and built a castle in Yanagawa, started to move to the present location. It was originally a Sōtō temple, but in 1669, Tachibana Tadashige, the third lord of

Yanagawa Domain was a Han (Japan), feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, in what is now eastern Fukuoka Prefecture. It was centered around Yanagawa Castle in what is now the city of Yanagawa, Fukuoka and was ruled by the ''tozama da ...

, has been converted to the

school temple. Tadashige invited Tetsumon Dōchi, the elder son of Mu'an and changed the name to Fukugon-ji. It later became the Tachibana clan's funeral temple and all nine of the Tachibana families are buried here. There is a cemetery in the back of the main hall, and the graves of some famous novelists such as Ken Hase, Kazuo Dan etc.

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Fukugon-ji - Yanagawa City
Buddhist temples in Fukuoka Prefecture Buildings and structures in Fukuoka Prefecture Religious buildings and structures completed in 1587 1580s establishments in Japan 1587 establishments in Asia Obaku temples {{Japan-Buddhist-temple-stub