Sōken-in
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- Part of
- Daitoku-ji Temple
- Named after
- Oda Nobunaga
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Kita-ku
- Founded by
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- Dedicated to
- Oda Nobunaga
- Image
- Souken-in.JPG
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- adjacent structure or building
- Jukō-in
- Commons category
- Souken-in, Daitokuji
- inception
- 1583-00-00
- heritage designation
- Important Cultural Property of Japan
- native label
- 総見院
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thumb|right|300px|Sōken-in, a sub-temple of Daitoku-ji
is a sub-temple of Daitoku-ji, Kyoto, Japan. It was founded by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1582 as the mortuary temple of Oda Nobunaga. Hideyoshi granted the temple three hundred koku and staged his celebrated Daitoku-ji tea gathering on its grounds in 1585. During the early years of the Meiji period its precinct was demolished and its treasures relocated; Sōken-in was revived in 1926. The seated wooden statue of Oda Nobunaga of 1583, lacquered, with inlaid eyes and an inscription on the base, an Important Cultural Property, was returned in 1961. Nobunaga's funeral and Hideyoshi's foundation of the sub-temple "with the very best wood available, a remarkable thing to see" was recounted by the Portuguese missionary Luís Fróis in his contemporary História de Japam.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sōken-in” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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