Shihon-ji (柿本寺) is a ruined temple (廃寺) in Tenri, Nara, Japan.
History edit
Shihon-ji was the uji-dera (氏寺, "family temple") of the Kakinomoto clan.[1] It is supposedly the final resting place of the remains of the poet Kakinomoto no Hitomaro and so became a focal point for veneration of him once he began to be worshiped as a god of poetry.[1] A stone tablet commemorating Hitomaro at this spot is mentioned in the Fujiwara no Kiyosuke Kashū (藤原清輔家集),[1] which was likely compiled in the late 12th century.[2]
In 1337 (Kenmu 4), in the early Nanboku-chō period, the army of the Northern Court took up camp in the temple grounds and did battle with the Southern Court's forces.[1] Around the same period, the Shihon-gū Mandala (柿本宮曼荼羅 Shihon-gū Mandara) was produced here.[1] It is now in the holdings of the Yamato Bunkakan (大和文華館) and is an Important Cultural Property.[1]
It moved at some point, the date of which is uncertain, but it was likely established at its present location within the Muromachi period.[1] Until the Edo period it flourished as a place of learning for Buddhist monks practicing waka composition and tea ceremony.[1] In 1732 (Kyōhō 17), the monks of the temple and the physician Morimoto Munenori (森本宗範) erected a stone tablet (歌塚 utazuka) in the temple grounds.[1]
It was abandoned at the beginning of the Meiji period.[1]
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Works cited edit
- Hashimoto, Fumio (1983). "Kiyosuke Ason Shū". Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典 (in Japanese). Vol. 2. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten. pp. 216–217. OCLC 11917421.
- Tenri City (2014). "Wani Shita Jinja / Shihon-ji Ato to Utazuka (和爾下神社・柿本寺跡と歌塚)". Tenri City Official Web Site. Tenri: Tenri Municipal Government. Retrieved 2018-05-13.