| 1．Mikawa Thirty-three Kannon ・ |
| The Mikawa Thirty-three Kannon (三河三十三観音, Mikawa Sanjūsan Kannon) are a collection of Buddhist temples in eastern Aichi Prefecture, Japan, most of which are near Mikawa Bay. The name is derived from Mikawa Province, the former name for the area. |
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| 2．Owari Thirty-three Kannon ・ |
| The Owari Thirty-three Kannon (尾張三十三観音, Owari Sanjūsan Kannon) are a collection of Buddhist temples in western Aichi Prefecture, Japan, all dedicated to the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara (Kannon). The name is derived from Owari Province, the former name for the area. The list was created in 1955.[1] |
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| 3．Shinano Kokubun-ji ・Ueda, Nagano ・Buddhist |
| The Shinano Kokubun-ji (信濃国分寺) is a Tendai sect Buddhist temple located in the city of Ueda, Nagano, Japan. Its honzon is Yakushi Nyōrai. It is the successor to the Nara period kokubunji National Temples established by Emperor Shōmu for the purpose of promoting Buddhism as the national religion of Japan and standardising control of the Yamato rule to the provinces.[1] The archaeological site with the ruins of the ancient temple grounds for the provincial temple and its associated provincial nunnery was collectively designated as a National Historic Site in 1974.[2] |
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| 4．Onsen-ji (Nagano) ・1-21-1 Yunowaki, Suwa-shi, Nagano-ken 392-0003 ・Buddhism |
| Onsen-ji (温泉寺) is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Rinzai school (Myōshin-ji branch) of Japanese Zen, located in the city of Suwa, Nagano, Japan. Its main image is a statue of Shaka Nyōrai. The temple is located a 15-minute walk from Kami-Suwa Station. |
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| 5．Hida Kokubun-ji ・1-83 Sōwa-chō, Takayama-shi, Gifu-ken ・Buddhist |
| Hida Kokubun-ji (飛騨国分寺) is a Shingon-sect Buddhist temple in the Sowamachi neighborhood of the city of Takayama, Gifu, Japan. It is one of the few surviving provincial temples established by Emperor Shōmu during the Nara period (710 – 794).[1] Due to this connection, the foundation stones of the Nara period pagoda located on temple grounds were designated as a National Historic Site in 1929.[2] |
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| 6．Arako Kannon ・ |
| Arako Kannon (荒子観音), also known as Jōkai-san Enryū-in Kannon-ji (浄海山圓龍（円竜）院観音寺) is a Buddhist temple located in Nagoya in central Japan. It has a wooden pagoda which is one of Japan's oldest, dating to the 16th century.[1]Maeda Toshiie's family bodhisattva. Media related to Arako Kannon at Wikimedia Commons |
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| 7．Ōsu Kannon ・ |
| Ōsu Kannon (大須観音) is a Buddhist temple of the Shingon sect located in Ōsu, in central Nagoya, Japan. It belongs to the Owari Thirty-three Kannon. Its address is 愛知県名古屋市中区大須2-21-47 (Aichi Ken, Nagoya-shi, Naka-ku Osu, 2-21-47). |
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| 8．Kōshō-ji, Nagoya ・ |
| Kōshō-ji (興正寺) is a Shingon Buddhist temple located in Yagoto, Nagoya, in central Japan. It belongs to the Owari Thirty-three Kannon. The temple was established by the Tokugawa clan and dates to the 17th century. The temple and grounds of its attached graveyard are situated in the woodland on Yagoto Hill. The complex consists of a number of wooden buildings, which includes a five-storey pagoda completed in 1808. The pagoda is the oldest in Aichi prefecture and was designated an Important Cultural Asset in 1982. |
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| 9．Kasadera Kannon ・ |
| Kasadera Kannon, also known as Ryūfuku-ji (笠覆寺) is a Buddhist temple located in Minami-ku, Nagoya in central Japan. It is a part of the Owari Thirty-three Kannon. The temple was established by the Shingon sect. The temple has a Niōmon entrance gate, a number of small subsidiary temples and a pagoda which is two storeys high. Kasadera Kannon stages a Spring-time Setsubun festival on February 3 each year and a temple flea market on the 18th of every month. |
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| 10．Kenchū-ji ・ |
| Kenchū-ji (建中寺) is a Jōdo-shū Buddhist temple in Tsutsui, Higashi-ku, Nagoya, central Japan. Starting in the Edo period, the mausoleums of the lords of the Owari Domain were located there, making it the Bodaiji of the Owari Tokugawa family.[1] The present main hall of the Nagoya Tōshō-gū was a mausoleum for Lord Tokugawa Yoshinao's consort Haruhime (春姫), which used to be located at Kenchū-ji, and was moved to the site in 1953 as a replacement. It is a designated cultural property of Aichi prefecture. |
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| 11．Nittai-ji ・1-1 Hōō-chō, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture ・Eclectic |
| Kakuōzan Nittai-ji (覚王山日泰寺, Japan-Thailand Temple) is a Buddhist temple located in the city of Nagoya, Aichi prefecture, Japan. It was built in 1904 in order to keep the ashes of Buddha, given to Japan by the Kingdom of Thailand. ”覚王” literally means "Enlightenment King," referring to the Buddha, and “日泰” means Japan and the Kingdom of Thailand in Japanese. |
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| 12．Kōjaku-in ・ |
| Kōjaku-in (香積院) is a Buddhist temple in Kawanayama-chō, Shōwa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi prefecture in central Japan.[1] The temple is associated with the production of Kawana ware during the Edo period. Media related to Kōjaku-in at Wikimedia Commons 35°08′49″N 136°57′26″E / 35.1469°N 136.9573°E / 35.1469; 136.9573 |
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| 13．Seigan-ji (Atsuta-ku, Nagoya) ・ |
| Seigan-ji (誓願寺) is a Buddhist temple located in Atsuta-ku, Nagoya, in central Japan. It is located on Fushimi-dōri (伏見通り), one of the main avenues of the city. |
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| 14．Tōgan-ji ・ |
| Tōgan-ji (桃巌寺) is a Buddhist temple of the Sōtō Zen sect located in Nagoya, central Japan. In 16th Century Toganji Temple has a Shiva-Lingam from 16th century. Originally built in 1502 by Oda Nobuyuki in memory of his father, Oda Nobuhide, it was moved to its current location in 1714. The temple grounds have a turtle pond and a grove of giant bamboo. A 10-meter tall Buddha statue known as "The Great Buddha of Nagoya" was erected in 1987.[1][2][3] |
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| 15．Banshō-ji ・ |
| Banshō-ji (万松寺) is a small temple located in Ōsu in central Nagoya, Japan.[1] Lord Oda Nobuhide (1510?-1552) built this Sōtō Buddhist temple in the then village of Nagoya in 1540, and invited the priest Daiun to open it. Katō Kiyomasa (1562–1611) stayed at the temple, which served as his quarters while he was engaged in the construction of Nagoya Castle. The temple was rebuilt in 1610 at its present site. |
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| 16．Hongan-ji Nagoya Betsuin ・754 Monzenchō, Naka-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture ・Jōdo Shinshū Honganji-ha |
| The Hongan-ji Nagoya Betsuin (本願寺派名古屋別院) is a Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist temple located in Naka ward, Nagoya in central Japan. The temple is a short distance south of Ōsu Kannon Station. It is also known a Nishi Betsuin (西別院; "Western branch temple"), being associated with Nishi Hongan-ji (西本願寺) in Kyoto. It is contrasted with the Ōtani-ha temple of the same name, popularly known as Higashi Betsuin (東別院; "Eastern branch temple"). |
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| 17．Amida-ji (Sakuragata, Okazaki) ・Maeda-13 Sakuragatacho, Okazaki, Aichi ・Jōdo Shū Seizanfukakusa-ha |
| Amida-ji (阿弥陀寺) is a Buddhist temple located in Sakuragata, Okazaki, Aichi. It belongs to the Seizanfukakusa-ha of Jōdo Shū. The temple is also known as Ōshōsan Amida-ji, Daikinkokuzan Saifuku-in (應聲山阿彌陀寺・大金谷山西福院). |
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| 18．Kitano temple ruins ・Okazaki, Aichi ・Buddhist |
| The Kitano temple ruins (北野廃寺跡, Kitao haji ato) is an archaeological site with the ruins of an Asuka period Buddhist temple located in what is now the city of Okazaki, Aichi, Japan. The actual name of the temple is unknown, and no structures of the original temple exists, but the temple grounds were designated as a National Historic Site in 1929, with the area under protection expanded in 1988.[1] |
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| 19．Daiju-ji ・5-1, Aza Hiromoto, Kamoda-cho, Okazaki, Aichi ・Buddhism |
| Daiju-ji (大樹寺 (だいじゅじ/だいじゅうじ)) is a Buddhist temple located in Okazaki, Aichi. Built by Matsudaira Chikatada (松平 親忠) in 1475, Daiju-ji was the family temple of the Matsudaira (松平氏) and Tokugawa clans (德川氏) which ruled Japan between 1600 and 1868. The Tahōtō of Daiju-ji, an Important Cultural Property of Japan, was built by Matsudaira Kiyoyasu (松平 清康), grandfather of Tokugawa Ieyasu (德川 家康).[1][2][3] |
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| 20．Jōkō-ji (Seto) ・Seto, Aichi ・Buddhist |
| Jōkō-ji (定光寺), is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Myōshin-ji branch of the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen, Buddhism located in the city of Seto, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Its main image is a statue of Jizō Bosatsu. The temple is noted for the mausoleum of Tokugawa Yoshinao, the son of Tokugawa Ieyasu and founding daimyō of Owari Domain; however it was not the bodaiji of the clan. |
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| 21．Tōkai Hundred Kannon ・ |
| The Tōkai Hundred Kannon (東海百観音, Tōkai Hyaku Kannon) are a collection of one-hundred Buddhist temples in the Tōkai region of central Honshū, Japan. The Tōkai Hundred Kannon is made of up of the Mino Thirty-three Kannon in Gifu Prefecture,[1] the Owari Thirty-three Kannon in western Aichi Prefecture, the Mikawa Thirty-three Kannon in eastern Aichi Prefecture, and Toyokawa Inari.[2] Some religious observers go on a pilgrimage to visit these temples in a specific order. |
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| 22．Toyokawa Inari ・1 Toyokawa-chō, Toyokawa, Aichi Prefecture ・Buddhism |
| Myōgon-ji (妙厳寺), also known as Toyokawa Inari (shinjitai: 豊川稲荷; kyūjitai: 豐川稲荷), is a Sōtō Zen Buddhist temple located in the city of Toyokawa in eastern Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Although the temple's main image is that of the thousand-armed form of the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara (Senju Kannon), it is more well-known for its guardian deity Toyokawa Dakini Shinten, a syncretic goddess who assumed characteristics of Inari, the Shinto kami of fertility, rice, agriculture, industry and worldly success. Despite the presence of a torii gate at the entrance (a relic of the amalgamation of Buddhism and native beliefs before the early modern period), the institution is a Buddhist temple and has no overt association with the Shinto religion. |
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| 23．Mikawa Kokubun-ji ・Hachiman-chō Hongo 31, Toyokawa-shi, Aichi-ken ・Buddhist |
| The Mikawa Kokubun-ji (三河国分寺) is a Buddhist temple located in the Yawata neighborhood of the city of Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan. It is the modern successor of one of the provincial temples established by Emperor Shōmu during the Nara period (710–794) for the purpose of promoting Buddhism as the national religion of Japan and standardising control of Yamato rule over the provinces.[1] |
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| 24．Mikawa Kokubunni-ji ・Hachiman-chō Hongo 31, Toyokawa-shi, Aichi-ken ・Buddhist |
| Mikawa Kokubun-niji (三河国分尼寺) is a Buddhist nunnery located in the Yahata neighborhood of the city of Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan. It is the modern successor of one of the provincial temples established by Emperor Shōmu during the Nara period (710 – 794) for the purpose of promoting Buddhism as the national religion of Japan and standardising control of the Yamato rule over the provinces.[1] |
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| 25．Honshō-ji ・26 Nodera, Nodera-cho, Anjō-shi, Aichi-ken 444-1165 ・Buddhism |
| Honshō-ji (本證寺) is a Buddhist temple of the Ōtani-ha Jōdo Shinshū sect in the city of Anjō, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Its main image is a statue of Amida Nyōrai. It is a rare surviving example of a fortified temple/monastery from the Sengoku period and as such, the temple grounds have been designated as Historic Site of Japanin 2016.[1] The temple is also known as the Nodera Gohon-bō (野寺御本坊). |
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| 26．Shōjū-in, Tokoname ・ |
| 34°52′46″N 136°50′30″E / 34.879343°N 136.841672°E / 34.879343; 136.841672 Shōjū-in (正住院) is a Buddhist temple of the Jōdo-shū, located in Tokoname, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan.[1][2] Media related to Shōjū-in (Tokoname) at Wikimedia Commons |
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| 27．Ōyama temple ruins ・Komaki, Aichi ・Buddhist |
| The Ōyama temple ruins (大山廃寺跡, Ōyama haji ato) is an archaeological site with the ruins of a Buddhist temple which existed from the Nara through Heian period, located in what is now the city of Komaki, Aichi, Japan. No remnant of the temple now exists except for some foundation stones, but the temple grounds were designated as a National Historic Site in 1929, with the area under protection expanded in 1980.[1] |
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| 28．Owari Kokubun-ji ・Shiroato-2490 Yawasechō, Inazawa-shi, Aichi-ken 492-8342 ・Buddhist |
| The Owari Kokubun-ji (尾張国分寺) is a Buddhist temple located in the Yawase neighborhood of the city of Inazawa, Aichi, Japan. The temple belongs to the Myōshin-ji branch of the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen. Its main image is a statue of Yakushi Nyōrai. It is the modern successor of one of the provincial temples established by Emperor Shōmu during the Nara period (710 – 794) for the purpose of promoting Buddhism as the national religion of Japan and standardising control of Yamato rule over the provinces.[1] The foundation stones of the original temple was designated as a National Historic Site by the Japanese government in 2012.[2] |
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| 29．Hōrai-ji ・Hōraiji-1 KadoyaShinshiro, Aichi 441-1944 ・Buddhism |
| Hōrai-ji (鳳来寺), Buddhist temple of the Shingon sect located in the city of Shinshiro, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Its main image is a statue of Yakushi Nyōrai. The temple is located on the 695 metres (2,280 ft) Mount Hōrai and is accessed by a flight of 1425 steps. The grounds have been designated Place of Scenic Beauty and Natural Monument since 1931.[1] The area is also noted for its population of Eurasian scops owl, the prefectural bird of Aichi Prefecture. |
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| 30．Honkō-ji ・Uchiyama-17 Fukōzu, Kōta-machi, Nukata-gun, Aichi-ken 444-0124 ・Buddhism |
| Honkō-ji (本光寺) is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Sōtō sect of Japanese Zen located in the town of Kōta, Nukata District, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The temple is noted for its hydrangea flowers in spring. Its main image is a statue of Shaka Nyōrai. |
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| 31．Enryaku-ji ・4220 Sakamoto Honchō, Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture ・Tendai |
| Enryaku-ji (延暦寺, Enryaku-ji) is a Tendai monastery located on Mount Hiei in Ōtsu, overlooking Kyoto. It was first founded in 788 during the early Heian period (794–1185)[1] by Saichō (767–822), also known as Dengyō Daishi, who introduced the Tendai sect of Mahayana Buddhism to Japan from China. The temple complex has undergone several reconstruction efforts since then, with the most significant (that of the main hall) taking place in 1642 under Tokugawa Iemitsu. Enryaku-ji is the headquarters of the Tendai sect and one of the most significant monasteries in Japanese history. As such, it is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities)". The founders of Jōdo-shū, Jōdo Shinshū, Sōtō Zen, and Nichiren Buddhism all spent time at the monastery. Enryaku-ji is also the center for the practice of kaihōgyō (aka the "marathon monks"). |
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