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is a Buddhist temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, one of the oldest temple in Kamakura and, together with Hōkai-ji, the only one of the Tendai denomination.〔Kamiya Vol. 1 (2008:75)〕 The temple is Number one of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho pilgrimage circuit.〔 Two of the three statues of goddess Kannon it enshrines are Important Cultural Properties.〔 Sugimotodera is nicknamed ''Geba Kannon'' ("Dismount Kannon"), because horsemen never failed to dismount from their steeds when they passed by.〔 (According to a different version of the legend, non-believers always fell from their horse when passing in front of the temple.)〔Mutsu (1995:48)〕 The temple is a of Hōkai-ji.〔Shirai (1976:171)〕 ==History== According to the temple's own records, Sugimoto-dera was founded in 734 by priest Gyōki on orders by Emperor Shōmu, and is therefore the oldest of Kamakura's temples, predating the shogunate by half a millennium.〔Kamakura Shōkō Kaigijo (2008:85)〕 The records say that in the 8th century priest Gyōki was crossing the Kantō region on foot when he saw Kamakura from Mount Taizō (the Taizōzan in the temple's name) and decided to leave there a statue of goddess Kannon.〔 He then carved and enshrined it himself.〔 Later in 734,〔6th year of the Tenpyō era.〕 Emperor Shōmu was told by the goddess herself to build here a temple (the ''Hon-dō'').〔 Later, the temple was restored by Ennin (794–864), and Eshin Sōzu Genshin (942–1017) enshrined in it a statue of Eleven-faced Kannon, an event that made the temple surge to Number one of the Sanjusankasho pilgrimage circuit.〔 This is the tradition: the real history of the temple is in reality largely unknown, but Sugimoto-dera certainly predates the Kamakura period (1185-1333) and is therefore, if not the oldest, among the oldest temples in Kamakura.〔 The Azuma Kagami calls it "Ōkura Kannondō", or "Ōkura Kannon Hall", from the old name of the area where it stands.〔 The temple was visited in 1191 by Minamoto no Yoritomo, who ordered extensive repairs.〔 In 1337, well after the fall of the shogunate in 1333, there was a battle in the temple's premises between Hōjō supporters and Ashikaga forces, and more than 300 samurai lost their lives. The many small gorintō (stone stupas) to the right of the main hall were laid there in memory of those who fell on that occasion. The history of the temple during the Muromachi period is unfortunately not known.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sugimoto-dera」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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