朗慶山 照栄院

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［縁起］
正応4年（1291）日朗聖人の庵室として開創。日朗聖人没後荒廃したが、嘉吉年間（1441〜1444）に再興された。元禄2年（1689）南谷檀林という僧侶教育の学校を開設、明治2年（1869）に廃されるまで多くの高僧を送り出した。本門寺の役寺としての三院家の一。山上の妙見堂に祀られる妙見菩薩立像は寛文４年（1664）加藤清正の娘瑶林院が夫の紀州徳川頼宣の現世安穏後生善処を祈念して奉納したもの。
 
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【Origins】
In 1291, Nichiro Shonin, who was Nichiren Shonin’s disciple, founded a hermitage. In 1689, Nichigen Shonin, the 22nd Chief Abbot of Honmonji Temple founded a school to educate priests. The school was called “Nangoku danrin.” Until its closure in 1869, the school had produced many priests of exceptional virtue.
The statue of Myoken Bosatsu (Bodhisattva), enshrined in the Myoken-do hall at the top of the mountain, was dedicated by Kato Kiyomasa’s daughter to pray that her husband, Tokugawa Yorinobu, would receive the Buddhist blessings “Genze an-non” and “Gosho-zen-sho.”
 
＊1 Kato Kiyomasa (1562－1611) was a Japanese military leader who helped both Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu in their attempts to unify Japan. He had deep faith in Hokke-kyo Sutra (the Lotus Sutra).
 
＊2 The Buddhist blessings “Genze an-non”and “Gosho-zen-sho” are from the Hokke-kyo Sutra, which says that a person who believes in the Hokke-kyo can live comfortably in this world and, in a later life, such a person will be born into a good world.
 
【Message from the Chief Priest】
We will fulfill the ministration that everyone who visits is comfortable in all four seasons. 
 
 
 
【A brief explanation of Nichiren Shonin and Ikegami 】
 
Nichiren Shonin (1222－1282) was a priest in the mid-Kamakura period and founder of the Nichiren Shu of Buddhism. “Shonin” means a “reverend priest.”
Nichiren Shu is a Buddhist Order that was founded more than 750 years ago. “Shu” simply means “Order.”
Nichiren Shonin founded Ikegami Honmonji Temple just before his death in October of 1282 at the request of Ikegami Munenaka, a wealthy feudal load and faithful follower.