Place of worship
Fudo-in
3-chōme-4-9 Ushitashinmachi, Higashi Ward, Hiroshima, 732-0068
Relocated Zen hall from fifteen forty, its timbers dismantled and rebuilt beam by beam far from where they were raised.
This guide to Fudo-in in Hiroshima follows a Zen Buddha hall built in 1540 by the warlord Ouchi Yoshitaka in Yamaguchi, then dismantled beam by numbered beam and hauled here by the monk Ankokuji Ekei, an envoy who won the trust of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. It traces Ekei's rebuilding of the whole temple and the 1594 gate, said to be built from timber carried back from Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea. Look up at the joinery and consider how it made the crossing without a crane or a truck.
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