Yachū-ji
{{Short description|Buddhist temple in Habikino, Japan}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{Infobox religious building
| name = Yachū-ji
| native_name =野中寺
| image = Yachuji, hondou-1.jpg
| image_size = 300
| alt =
| caption = Yachū-ji Hondo
| map_type = Japan Osaka Prefecture#Japan
| relief = 1
| map_alt =
| map_caption = Yachū-ji
| location = 5-9-24 Nonoue, Habikino-shi, Osaka-fu
| coordinates = {{coord|34|33|33.53|N|135|35|31.11|E|region:JP-27_type:landmark|display=inline, title}}
| religious_affiliation = Buddhist
| rite = Kōyasan Shingon-shū
| deity = Yakushi Nyōrai
| country = Japan
| functional_status = active
| website =
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{{nihongo|Yachū-ji|野中寺}} is a Buddhist temple located in the city of Habikino, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, belonging to the Kōyasan Shingon-shū branch of Shingon Buddhism. Its main image is a statue of Yakushi Nyorai. The temple is also popularly known as {{nihongo|Naka-no-Taisi|中の太子}} as it is located in between the temples of Eifuku-ji and Taiseishōgun-ji, which also claim a connection with Prince Shōtoku.{{cite book |last1=Isomura |first1=Yukio |last2=Sakai |first2=Hideya |title=(国指定史跡事典) National Historic Site Encyclopedia |date=2012 |publisher=学生社 |isbn=978-4311750403}}{{in lang|ja}} The temple precincts are designated a National Historic Site{{cite web |url= https://kunishitei.bunka.go.jp/heritage/detail/401/1786 |title=野中寺旧伽藍跡|trans-title=Yachū-ji Old Precincts|language=Japanese |publisher=Agency for Cultural Affairs |accessdate=20 August 2020}}
History
According to tradition, this temple is one of the 48 built by Soga no Umako under the orders of Prince Shōtoku. However, according to an archaeological excavation, it appears that it was constructed around the first year of the Hakuchi (650 AD), or several decades after the death of both gentlemen. It was located on the Takeuchi Kaidō, the ancient highway connecting the capital of Asuka with the coast. From the cornerstones that remain in the precincts, a large-scale temple with a layout patterned after Hōryū-ji in Ikaruga existed from the Asuka period to the first half of the Nara period. he foundations of the Middle Gate, Main Hall, Pagoda and Lecture Hall and Cloister have been found. It is speculated that this temple had a connection with the Funa clan, a group of toraijin immigrants from the Korean kingdom of Baekje who had strong connections with Soga no Umako, and who had started to settle in this area at the end of the Kofun period.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}
The pagoda was destroyed by a fire during the wars of the Nanboku-chō period and it is uncertain how much of the temple survived. It appears to have been close to an abandoned temple by the early Edo Period. In 1661 it was revived by priest named Kakue from Yamashiro Province with the support of Sayama and Tannan Domains, only to burn down again during the Kyōhō era (1716-1735), with the exception of its Jizō-do. In 1724, Yanagisawa Yoshisato, the daimyō of Yamato Kōriyama Domain donated a new refectory and guest hall. The temple continued to rebuild through the end of the Edo period as a seminary for the Risshū sect. In the middle of the Meiji period, it changed its affiliation to the Kōyasan Shingon-shū.
The temple is located about a 15-minute walk from Fujiidera Station on the Kintetsu Minami Osaka Line.
File:Yachuji03 1024.jpg|Jizō-dō
File:Yachuji, kondou.jpg|Site of Kondō
File:Yachuji, tou.jpg|Site of Three-story Pagoda
File:Yachuji, sekkan.jpg|Hichinjo Ikenishi Kofun sarcophagus
File:Yachuji, sanmon.jpg|Sanmon
Cultural Properties
- Jizō Bosatsu, standing, wooden, Heian period, Important Cultural Property{{cite web |url= https://kunishitei.bunka.go.jp/heritage/detail/201/3824 |title=木造地蔵菩薩立像〈／（地蔵堂安置）〉|trans-title=Mokuzō Jizō Bosatsu ryūzō 〈 / (Jizōdō anchi) 〉|language=Japanese |publisher=Agency for Cultural Affairs |accessdate=20 August 2020}}
- Miroku Bosatsu, seated, gold-bronze, Hakuhō period, Important Cultural Property{{cite web |url= https://kunishitei.bunka.go.jp/heritage/detail/201/3825 |title=金銅弥勒菩薩半跏像|trans-title=Miroku Bosatsu hankazō|language=Japanese |publisher=Agency for Cultural Affairs |accessdate=20 August 2020}} The statue was discovered in a warehouse at the temple in 1918, and is 18.5 cm tall. It has an inscription giving a date of 666 AD.
See also
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Yachuji}}
- [https://www.city.habikino.lg.jp/soshiki/sekaiisan_bunkazai/bunkazai/bunkazai/iseki_shokai/asuka_nara/2418.html Habikino City home page] {{in lang|ja}}
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Category:Buddhist temples in Osaka Prefecture
Category:History of Osaka Prefecture
Category:7th-century Buddhist temples
Category:Historic Sites of Japan
Category:Important Cultural Properties of Japan
Category:Osaka Prefecture designated tangible cultural property