- Kan'ei-ji
nihongo|Kan'ei-ji|東叡山寛永寺|Tōeizan Kan'ei-ji is a
Tendai Buddhist temple inTokyo ,Japan . It was founded in 1625 byTenkai .Many temple structures were razed in the great Mereiki fire of 1657. [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/ealac/V3613/edo/html/kaneiji.html Kaneiji] . Columbia University. Accessed
June 13 ,2008 .] A new hall was constructed inside the enclosure of Kan'ei-ji in 1698. [Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). "Annales des empereurs du japon," p. 415.]Kan'ei-ji's five-story pagoda and the Tōshōgu Shrine were amongst the gems of the old temple enclosure. Both stand undisturbed by the passage of years since the end of the
Tokugawa shogunate .During the height of the
Boshin War , theBattle of Ueno took place at the temple, and resulted in the temple's destruction.The devastated temple buildings and gardens were not restored. Instead,
Ueno Park was created on the former grounds of Kan'ei-ji. [http://www.tnm.go.jp/en/servlet/Con?pageId=D01&processId=02&event_id=2991&event_idx=1&initdate=2006/06/01&dispdate=2006/06/22 Japanese National History] . Tokyo National Museum. AccessedJune 13 ,2008 .]References
* Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/
Hayashi Gahō , 1652] , "Nipon o daï itsi ran ; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon, tr. par M. Isaac Titsingh avec l'aide de plusieurs interprètes attachés au comptoir hollandais de Nangasaki; ouvrage re., complété et cor. sur l'original japonais-chinois, accompagné de notes et précédé d'un Aperçu d'histoire mythologique du Japon, par M. J. Klaproth." Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. [http://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran ...Click link for digitized, full-text copy of this book (in French)]External links
* [http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/arrange/attractions/facilities/shrines_temples/83dn3a000000eh6v.html Link to Japanese National Tourist Organization web page]
* [http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/BuildingDetail/4131.php Link to contemporary snapshot images of Kan'ei-ji five-story pagoda]
* National Diet Library: [http://www.ndl.go.jp/scenery/e/data/307/index.html photograph of Kan'ei-ji pagoda (1896)] ; [http://www.ndl.go.jp/scenery/e/data/306/index.html?type=category&p=temples_shrines photograph of Toshogu Shrine at Ueno (1911)]
* [http://www.nga.gov.au/MonetJapan/Detail.cfm?WorkID=J86 Link to "The battle of Toeizan Temple on Mount Sanno at Ueno," Yoshitoshi Tsukioka (1874)]
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