After leaving Yanagawa, we visited to Kiyomizu-dera, a Tendai temple in Miyama, Fukuoka.
Do not confuse the same name in Kyoto, one of the most celebrated temples of Japan!
History
Kiyomizu-dera
(清水寺 ) is a Tendai temple in Miyama, Fukuoka, Japan. Its honorary
sangō prefix is motoyoshizan (本吉山 ).
According to legend,
Kiyomizu-dera was founded in the Heian period by Saichō, who went to China in 804 and 805, mastered
Tendai Buddhism, and returned to Japan in
806. After he returned to Japan, he was guided to Mount Kiyomizu by a bird and
found Nemu
Trees in the mountain. He cropped them and created a pair of Bodhisattva Kannon statues, enshrining one in Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto. The remaining Buddha is enshrined in
this temple.
The sanmon main gate was built in 1745 by Yanagawa Domain
Sadanori Tachibana. A three-story pagoda, a replica of the five-story pagoda
Shitennō-ji Temple in Osaka, was originally built in 1836. The
present pagoda was rebuilt in 1984. Both have been designated Prefectural
Cultural Properties.
From Wikipedia
- Main Hall (本堂)
- The sanmon (山門) gate
- A three-story pagoda, a replica of the five-story pagoda Shitennoji-temple in Osaka.
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