Honpō-ji (Kyoto)

Honpō-ji (本法寺) is a Nichiren Buddhist (specifically Nichiren-shū) temple in Kyoto, Japan.

Its sangō (山号; lit., "mountain name"; a type of appellation carried by many Buddhist temples[1]) is "Eishōzan" (叡昌山).

[2] It was originally constructed in the Higashinotōin-Ayakōji (東洞院綾小路) area of the city,[2] but when Nisshin angered the shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and was imprisoned, the temple was destroyed.

After Nisshin's death, the Tenmon Hokke Rebellion of 1536 occurred in Kyoto, and all the Nichiren sect temples were destroyed.

In 1542, however, Honpō-ji was rebuilt at Ichijō Horikawa-agaru, and in 1590, it was moved to its present location, at Ogawa Teranouchi-agaru in the Kamigyō-ku ward of Kyoto city.

Front gate to Honpo-ji (Kyoto)
Inside the compound