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is a Buddhist temple of the Rinzai sect in Nikaidō's near Kamakura, Japan.〔Kamiya (2008:98-102)〕 During the Muromachi period it was the family temple of the Ashikaga rulers of Kamakura (the ''Kantō kubō''): four of the five ''kubō'' are buried there in a private cemetery closed to the public〔〔The exception being the last one, Shigeuji, who escaped to Koga to become the ''Koga kubō''. See the ''Kantō kubō'' article.〕 and first ''kubō'' Ashikaga Motouji's is also known with the name .〔Yasuda (1990:26)〕 Designed by prominent Zen religious figure, poet and Zen garden designer Musō Soseki (also known as Musō Kokushi), the temple lies on top of an isolated hill and is famous for both its garden and its Zen rock garden.〔 The beauty and the quantity of its plants have gained it since antiquity the nickname .〔 The main object of worship is Jizō Bosatsu.〔Nihon Rekishi Chimei Taikei〕 Zuisen-ji is an Historic Site and contains numerous objects classified as Important Cultural Properties and Places of Scenic Beauty.〔 ==History== Musō Soseki was not only the temple's founding priest, but also its main designer.〔Harada (2007:51–52)〕 His sponsor, Nikaidō Dōun, was the lord of Kai in today's Yamanashi prefecture, where Musō had spent his youth.〔 The name of Dōun's family's had originally been Fujiwara, but was later changed to Nikaidō because the family mansion was in Nikaidō.〔 It is likely that he helped Muso because his temple would be erected in the area that had given its name to his family.〔 Musō, who during his life had the support of powerful figures like Emperor Go-Toba, ninth ''shikken'' Hōjō Sadatoki and eleventh shikken Hōjō Takatoki, chose this present location because he believed it was ideal for a Zen temple.〔 In 1326 he moved from a temple called Nanpō-in near Engaku-ji to the Momijigayatsu Valley to direct the construction work.〔 Founded in 1327 with the name , Zuisen-ji in its first version, completed in 1328, consisted of a temple to goddess Kannon (a ''Kannonden''), a belvedere (the ) and a Zen garden.〔 After the fall of the Kamakura shogunate in 1333 Zuisen-ji came under the protection of the Ashikaga family.〔Shirai (1976:169)〕 First ''Kantō kubō'' Ashikaga Motouji, son of Ashikaga Takauji, chose to be buried in it, thus starting a tradition.〔 It was during that period and under his sponsorship that the name was changed and the temple assumed its finished form.〔 In 1386 it was nominated first of the Kantō Jissetsu, a group of temples second in power only to the Five Mountain System.〔 At the peak of its power it had several subtemples, including one dedicated to Ashikaga Takauji's mother and another to Ashikaga Motouji, but none of them has survived.〔 Zuisen-ji as a whole was an important center of development of the Literature of the Five Mountains, and figures like Gidō Shūshin lived and worked here.〔 During the Edo period Tokugawa Mitsukuni had the temple restored and donated a wooden statue of Thousand-armed Kannon, Goddess of Mercy, meant to be housed in the belvedere as Zuisen-ji's main object of worship.〔 The Shinpen Kamakurashi, a 1685 guide book to Kamakura commissioned by Mitsukuni which had great impact on the city's history, was written at the belvedere〔Kamakura Green Net, (Zuisen-ji temple ) accessed on November 23, 2008〕 by Kawai Tsunehisa, Matsumura Kiyoyuki and Rikiishi Tadakazu.〔Takahashi (2005:20)〕 The original building has, like the others, been lost, but the statue survives and is housed in the main hall of the temple.〔 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「Zuisen-ji」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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