Jiyan Temple

It is a Shingi Shingon sect and is the last temple of Saimyoji Temple in Kosugi Village, Kanagawa Prefecture, and belongs to the Daigoji sect in Kyoto. In the first year of Tokuji (1306), when Hōin Sadane was on his way to circumstance, when he passed through this place, he told the sōshi Nagasaki Shirozaemon that he had excavated the third Myō from the middle of the Takigaya Toto cliff, and thinking of the strangeness of the heavens, Sadane built a small hall and held a festival for it. It so happened that a villager was handicapped, so he put the statue on the ground again and cut the statue in its place. Many of the villagers wanted to see the statue, and they renovated the Buddhist hall (Shugensho). Sadane died on August 6, 1324. It is said that Nagasaki Shiro Saemon (the name of the first generation of the Nagasaki family, the younger brother of Gyozen) moved the Shugensho that was located at the bottom of this cliff with the help of the 2nd year of Tenmon Eion Gaigo, etc., on the top of the cliff, built a hall between the seven rooms to the east, enshrined the Honzon Dai Nichi Nyojo, and called it Jigan-ji, and it is said that it became a Shingon sect around this time. According to the genealogy of the Nagasaki family, it is recorded that the fourth generation of Kakuni (Lieutenant Shiroemon) repaired this temple, but Mitake Gongen is also enshrined. The Nagasaki family moved the Gyoshoji Temple from Odawara as a bodhi temple, so this temple was used as a prayer hall. After the Meiji Restoration, graves began to be set up, and there are currently 260 dan houses, and there is the grave of the novelist Saburo Koga. The wooden seated statue of the Honzon Dainichi Nyorai was destroyed by a major fire in the 6th year of Kaei (1853). It is said that he avoided difficulties in the temple tradition, so it seems to be certain. In the temple's history book, it is written, "According to the lineage of the Emperor Hanazono, the Emperor Hanazono's nembutsu Buddha is to be known as the crest of the 57th paulownia of the Eisei, and the 10th year and 3rd month of culture are recorded." The crest is attached to the ridge of the roof of the main hall. In addition, it is said that there is a genealogy of the Nagasaki family in the womb of the honzon. (From Setagaya Shrine and Historical Site)