Shihon-ji
Shihon-ji (柿本寺) is a ruined temple (廃寺) in Tenri, Nara, Japan.
History
Shihon-ji was the uji-dera (氏寺, "family temple") of the Kakinomoto clan.{{sfnm|1a1=Tenri City|1y=2014}} It is supposedly the final resting place of the remains of the poet Kakinomoto no Hitomaro and so became a focal point for veneration of him once he began to be worshiped as a god of poetry.{{sfnm|1a1=Tenri City|1y=2014}} A stone tablet commemorating Hitomaro at this spot is mentioned in the Fujiwara no Kiyosuke Kashū (藤原清輔家集),{{sfnm|1a1=Tenri City|1y=2014}} which was likely compiled in the late 12th century.{{sfnm|1a1=Hashimoto|1y=1983|1p=2016}}
In 1337 (Kenmu 4), in the early Nanboku-chō period, the army of the Northern Court took up camp in the temple grounds and did battle with the Southern Court's forces.{{sfnm|1a1=Tenri City|1y=2014}} Around the same period, the Shihon-gū Mandala (柿本宮曼荼羅 Shihon-gū Mandara) was produced here.{{sfnm|1a1=Tenri City|1y=2014}} It is now in the holdings of the Yamato Bunkakan (大和文華館) and is an Important Cultural Property.{{sfnm|1a1=Tenri City|1y=2014}}
It moved at some point, the date of which is uncertain, but it was likely established at its present location within the Muromachi period.{{sfnm|1a1=Tenri City|1y=2014}} Until the Edo period it flourished as a place of learning for Buddhist monks practicing waka composition and tea ceremony.{{sfnm|1a1=Tenri City|1y=2014}} In 1732 (Kyōhō 17), the monks of the temple and the physician Morimoto Munenori (森本宗範) erected a stone tablet (歌塚 utazuka) in the temple grounds.{{sfnm|1a1=Tenri City|1y=2014}}
It was abandoned at the beginning of the Meiji period.{{sfnm|1a1=Tenri City|1y=2014}}
References
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= Works cited =
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- {{cite book
| last = Hashimoto
| first = Fumio
| author-link = Fumio Hashimoto
| chapter = Kiyosuke Ason Shū
| pages = 216–217
| title = Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten
| script-title = ja:日本古典文学大辞典
| language = Japanese
| year = 1983
| volume = 2
| location = Tokyo
| publisher = Iwanami Shoten
| oclc = 11917421
}}
- {{cite web
|url = http://www.city.tenri.nara.jp/kakuka/kyouikuiinkai/bunkazaika/bunkazai/1391410307447.html
|title = Wani Shita Jinja / Shihon-ji Ato to Utazuka (和爾下神社・柿本寺跡と歌塚)
|last = Tenri City
|author-link = Tenri, Nara
|date = 2014
|website = Tenri City Official Web Site
|publisher = Tenri Municipal Government
|location = Tenri
|access-date = 2018-05-13
}}
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