Renge-ji Temple

A Tendai School temple with the Buddhist name of Kimyozan.
In the early 1660s, Imaeda Shigenao, a vassal of the Kaga Maeda clan, left his family to become a Buddhist renunciate. He built a house on this site, where he spent the twilight of his life in the company of people such as Ishikawa Jozan and Kano Tanyu. Impressed by his virtue, his grandson, Chikayoshi, relocated a temple on Shichijo-Shiokoji to here to pray for the repose of Shigenao’s soul, making it a sub-temple of Enryaku-ji Jitsuzobo.
The main hall houses a statue of Shaka Nyorai (Gautama Buddha) as its principal image, and the grounds, covered in beautiful moss, include a rare, hexagonal-top Rengeji-style lantern, a stone inscription written in ancient seal script by Ishikawa Jozan, and a pillar commemorating Shigenao with an inscription by Kinoshita Jun’an.
The garden, with a pond, “crane stone,” and “turtle island,” is believed to have been laid out by Ishikawa Jozan. One of the most famous gardens of the Edo period, it is particularly noted for its autumn leaves.
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