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Shōgen-ji is a temple of the Myoshin-ji branch of Japanese Rinzai School of Zen Buddhism in Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka, Japan. According to the oral tradition, Shōgen-ji was initially built as a Tendai temple during Saicho’s visit to Eastern Japan in 817. At that time, the temple’s name was most likely spelled differently, i.e. as. Later, in the Kamakura period the temple was transferred to the Rinzai School and renamed to its present spelling borrowing the characters of the Jōgen imperial era.
Historically verifiable records indicate that during the Muromachi period the temple was selected as one of regional “peace-protection temples” ankoku-ji by the Muromachi bakufu. It was burned to the ground during Takeda Shingen’s invasion of Suruga. In the Edo period a Shinto shrine named “Divine Protection Mountain” shingosan was added to the rebuilt temple’s premises, hence the full title of the temple at present is Shingosan Shōgen Ankoku Zen-ji. The present abbot of the temple is poet, translator and Zen master, Sōiku Shigematsu.

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