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Enko-ji Temple

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  • Enko-ji Temple
    • Enko-ji is the temple of the Rinzai sect Nanzen-ji group in Sakyo-ku, Kyoto-shi Ichijo-ji.
    • In 1601, shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa built the Enkoji Temple in Fushimi, Kyoto, as a school to promote scholarship in Japan, and invited as its principal Zen Priest Genkitsu (Kanshitsu) Sanyo, who had been the ninth principal of the Ashikaga School in Shimotsuke ( a region near Tokyo).
    • In the garden Suikinkutsu makes a delicate natural sound in a ceramic pot under the ground.

The autumnal leaves of Enko-ji.

    The autumnal leaves of Enko-ji.

  • Around Seiyu Pond, the oldest pond in northern Kyoto, spring new greens and fall colorful leaves make this garden very attractive.
  • Many wooden printing types of those days sent by Ieyasu are saved, and these are specified to be important cultural properties.

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    Access to Enko-ji

  • [Address]
  •     103chi, Ichijoji Kotanicho, Sakyo-ku Kyoto
  • [Access]
  •     City Bus : 10-minute walk from Bus Stop Ichijoji-kudarimatsu-cho

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  • [The link to a website]
  •     The website of "Enko-ji"

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