Travel vlog Japan 木曽福島宿③興禅寺 Samurai Trail Kisofukushima-jyuku Kozen-temple [4K] 2021 3 03 ジャパンジャーニー

木曽福島宿 興禅寺です。日本一広い石庭・重森三玲 作の「看雲庭」と、江戸中期の茶人・作庭家でもある金森宗和による池泉庭園「万松庭」があります。
Kisofukushima-jyuku ～ Kozen-temple （Kiso valley）
Kozenji Temple (Kiso Town) Overview: Manmatsuyama Kozenji Temple is a temple of the Rinsai sect Myoshinji school located in Fukushima Mukaijo, Kiso Town, Nagano Prefecture. Kozenji was founded in 1434 by Nobumichi Kiso (12th generation of the Kiso family) as a memorial service for Yoshinaka Kiso, the grandson of Kenchoji Kaisan Lanxi Daolong 5th. It is said that the mountain was invited and opened. In addition, the 16th generation of the Kiso family, Yoshimoto Kiso, gave a great deal of asylum to his devotion, and the temple luck flourished. Since then, it has been protected as a bodhisattva temple of the Kiso family, and the temple luck has prospered, and it has become one of the three major temples of Kiso (Kozenji, Chofukuji, Joshoji). In the Warring States period, the Kiso family followed the Takeda family, but when the Takeda family declined, they were given to the Oda family in 1582, and in the same year, the Takeda family was destroyed, and Nobunaga self-defeated due to the Honnoji Incident. I gave it to my house. In 1590, when Ieyasu was transferred to the Kanto region, he accompanied him and left Kiso as the lord of 10,000 stones in Achido, Kaijo-gun, Shimousa.
Kozenji Temple has declined due to the loss of asylum-seekers, but in the Edo period, the Yamamura family, a vassal of the Kiso family, was appointed as a representative of the Kiso region and was protected as the family temple. There was a big fire in Kanei 18 (1641), Meiji 39 (1906), and Showa 2 (1927), and many temples, temple treasures, and records were burned down. The Teshimon Gate, which was designated as a protected building (nationally designated important cultural property), has been burned down. In the precincts, there are gardens such as Ningun Garden, which is said to be the largest stone garden in Japan, Manmatsu Garden, Shoryu Garden, Sumiyama Garden, a tomb monument containing the hair of Yoshinaka Kiso, a tomb monument of Shindo Kiso, and Yoshiyasu Kiso. There are tombs such as the tomb of Yoshimasa Kiso, the tomb of the Kiso family, the tomb of the Yamamura family, Keisai Takei, the tomb of my father and son, the tomb of Gohei Endo, the tomb of Sajuro Imai, and the tomb of stone-made piece stone. Kiso Seven Lucky Gods: Kisshoten. Sect: Rinzai sect Myoshinji sect. Principal: Shakyamuni.

[Legend of Inari Inari / Overview] -Inari is enshrined in the precincts of Kozenji Temple. Although there are minor differences in the legend of Egian Inari, it is generally reported as follows.

During the Warring States period, Hidetsuna Miki (his sister Hidetsuna Koji), the lord of Hida Province, loved a white fox very much. The fox was loved by his wife and Waka-kun, and he was a good playmate with Waka-kun in particular. In 1585, Nagachika Kanamori, who was ordered by Hideyoshi Toyotomi, invaded Hida, and Matsukura Castle (Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture), the residence of the Miki family, fell, Hideyoshi was self-bladed, and his wife and young were missing. The fox was at a loss and managed to reach Shinshu Suwa, and Chino Hyogo (Takashima clan had an elder with the same surname in the middle of the Edo period, but the relationship is unknown?) I decided to live and work at home, and named myself Suwa-an.

Egian was liked by everyone because he worked very well in the Chino family, but after a while, it was rumored that the young priest of Hidetsuna Miki left the house and changed his name to Kazuhisa Katsura and became the chief priest of Kozenji Temple in Kiso. I came to hear it. I couldn’t stand even if I was there, so I had some free time at the Chino family, and I went to Kiso’s Kozenji Temple under Kazuhisa Katsura and became a disciple as a small priest and took care of my surroundings. He didn’t call himself a fox when he was kept, but he was happy to be close to Katsura Osho and take care of him, so he did his best. To tell the truth, Kazuhisa Katsura knew the true identity of Egian, but he acted naturally thinking that it would be better for each other to pretend not to know it.

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