Dōjō-ji

Dōjō-ji
道成寺

Hondō (1357) and Three-storey pagoda (1763)
Basic information
Location 1738 Kanemaki, Hidakagawa, Wakayama Prefecture
Affiliation Tendai
Deity Senjū Kannon
Country Japan
Website http://www.dojoji.com/
Architectural description
Completed 701

Dōjō-ji (道成寺) is a Tendai school Buddhist temple in Hidakagawa, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. Founded in 701, it has given name to a number of plays, the statues of Senjū Kannon, Nikkō Bosatsu, and Gakkō Bosatsu are National Treasures, and there are a number of other Important Cultural Properties.[1][2]

Buildings

Treasures

Anchin and Kiyohime

The story of the monk Anchin (安珍) and his spurned lover Kiyohime (清姫) who, devoured by her passion and jealousy, turns into a serpent and pursues him to his destruction, is the subject of the Noh play Dōjōji, known for the rare prominence of its dramatic prop, the temple bell;[16][17] as well as the Kabuki play Musume Dōjōji with its long onnagata buyō.[18]

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dojoji.

References

  1. "Dojoji Temple". Hidakagawa Town. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
  2. "Dojoji". Wakayama Prefecture. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
  3. "Database of National Cultural Properties". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
  4. "Database of National Cultural Properties". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
  5. 1 2 "Wakayama bunkazai". Wakayama Prefecture. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
  6. "Database of National Cultural Properties". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
  7. "Database of National Cultural Properties". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
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  9. "Database of National Cultural Properties". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
  10. "Database of National Cultural Properties". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
  11. "Database of National Cultural Properties". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
  12. "Database of National Cultural Properties". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
  13. 1 2 "Wakayama bunkazai". Wakayama Prefecture. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
  14. "Database of National Cultural Properties". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
  15. Waters, Virginia Skord (1997). "Sex, Lies, and the Illustrated Scroll: The Dojoji Engi Emaki". Monumenta Nipponica. Sophia University. 52 (1): 59–84. doi:10.2307/2385487.
  16. Keene, Donald (1970). 20 Plays of the Nō Theatre. Columbia University Press. pp. 238–252. ISBN 0-231-03455-5.
  17. Klein, Susan Blakeley (1991). "When the Moon Strikes the Bell: Desire and Enlightenment in the Noh Play Dojoji". Journal of Japanese Studies. The Society for Japanese Studies. 17 (2): 291–322. doi:10.2307/132744.
  18. "Kabuki repertoire - Kyoganako musume dojoji". National Theatre of Japan. Retrieved 22 May 2011.

Coordinates: 33°54′52″N 135°10′28″E / 33.91444°N 135.17444°E / 33.91444; 135.17444

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