Kōsan-ji

34°18′13.5″N 133°5′25″E / 34.303750°N 133.09028°E / 34.303750; 133.09028ArchitectureFounderKanamoto KōzōCompleted1936Websitehttp://www.kousanji.or.jp/english/

Kōsan-ji (耕三寺) is a Hongan-ji school Jōdo Shinshū temple on the island of Ikuchijima in Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Founded by the industrialist Kōzō Kanamoto (later Koso Kōsanji) in 1936 in honour of his deceased mother, and with an area of approximately fifty thousand square metres, many of its structures are modelled upon the country's most famous historic temples and shrines.^[1] The Hill of Hope (未来心の丘, Miraishin no Oka) is a monument landscaped with five thousand square metres of Carrara marble, weighing some three thousand tons, by Kazuto Kuetani.^[2] The Kōsan-ji Museum houses over two thousand items, including nineteen Important Cultural Properties.^[3]

References

^ "Kosanji Temple and Museum". Onomichi City. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 19 April 2011.
^ Graham, Patricia J. (2007). Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art, 1600-2005. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 248–50, 230–33. ISBN 978-0-8248-3126-4.
^ "Choseizan Kosanji Temple". Kōsanji. Archived from the original on 3 July 2011. Retrieved 19 April 2011.