Every time I passed about the uninhabited temple near Asashiobashi at Tsukishima 4-chome, I was worried and visited many times to search for the name of the temple, auspiciousness, the intention of building, etc., but I can't find it from outside the temple.
The only clue is that there are 29 stone pillars, which are thought to be donors, on both sides of the space like the approach to the approach, for the founder and owner, and a lantern.
According to the owner's stone pillar, the construction was on May 1961. However, I am concerned about the degree of devastation, either because of its inability to live.
The founder and owner will be described later, but when I read this stone pillar, I was amazed at the background of the people involved in the construction. There are only members of the Diet such as ministers and governors who have been active in Tokyo (city) and the Diet from before and after the war.
That's why in erecting, I looked for something that could be even more clues to whether there was a deep word, but I couldn't quite understand the details.
The founder was Makoto Nagano, a professor at Tokyo Imperial University, a vice-chairman and Buddhist scholar of the 2nd World Buddhist Conference held in Tsukiji Honganji in 1952. I guessed that he was invited as the founder of a temple in Chuo-ku at that edge. (It's a good interpretation....)
In addition, the owner is a city council (city council) elected from the Kyobashi district before the war.
This temple is described as "Shakado hall" on the current map, but the elders in the district asked about the temple during the 1988 round-table discussion "Talking Tsukishima" hosted by Chuo-ku. When I was asked, he said "Taishido". Isn't the main statue enshrined in Shakado hall and Taishido completely different? Also, if you look through the glass door inside main hall, you'll be charged Kannon Bodhisattva. I'm wondering. So, when I looked next to the hall to see if there were any further hints, the founder, Dr. Nagano, wrote "Namsanpo".
On the right side of this forehead, the inscription "Edo Fire Memorial Party" is written, and on the left side the forehead notice (lucky day December 1961)) is written.
What is the connection with Dr. Nagano, the founder of the House of Representatives, and the Edo Fire Memorial Association? There is only an increase in doubt.
In the aforementioned round-table discussion about what purpose it was erected for the purpose, the old man of Tsukishima said, "To the owner mourns various people's bodhis."
Therefore, when I contacted the Edo Fire Memorial Association about this temple, a historical site researcher of the association immediately investigated it, and it became clear that the relationship between the owner of main hall and the fire memorial society was not close. . In particular, anecdotes from the owner of main hall remain in the memoir of Miemon Furukawa, the head of Nigumi.
In any case, the temple, which was related to so many people, was a survey that made me feel painfully the lack of decaying without a guard.
In this survey, the Kyobashi Library Regional Archives, Tsukishima Library, and the Edo Fire Memorial Society Historic Site Investigators were instrumental. Once again, I would like to thank you very much.
