In the precincts of Tsukiji Honganji Temple, which sometimes stops, there are various monuments and towers in addition to the statue of Shinran Saints. According to the Honganji pamphlet, there are Basho stone monument, Genseki Habu Tomb, Shinroku Hazama Peace pagoda, Magoemon Mori Peace pagoda, Hoitsu Sakai Tomb, Mrs. Takeko Kujo poetry monument and Shinran Saints.
Although not in the Honganji pamphlet, in one corner there is also the remains of the deceased in Peace pagoda, who died in the Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War, and in Taiwan. There is a monument to the triumphal kettle donated by Gentaro Kodama. I can't find anything like a kettle. These monuments have no explanation boards from Chuo-ku and their history is not clear, but I always hope that you will consider the explanation boards.
By the way, Takeko Kujo, along with Byakuren Yanagihara and Kinkin Egi, is a poet called Daishozo Bijin, and I was interested in why poetry monument is here.
Takeko was born in Kyoto in 1887 as the second daughter of Koson Otani, the 21st lord of Nishi Honganji Temple. In 1909, he married Yoshiyuki Kujo, who was born in the Duke and works for Shokin Bank, and went to London, where his husband works and studying abroad, but returned to Japan alone the following year. From that time on, he began to study waka with Nobutsuna Sasaki. In 1911, he became the head of the Buddhist Women's Association at the age of 30 with the early life of his sister-in-law, Kuniko Otani. At that time, from the perspective of education based on Buddhism, he also participated in the establishment of the current Kyoto Women's Academy and Kyoto Women's University.
In 1920, her husband returned to Japan and settled in the current Shimo-Ochiai, Shinjuku-ku, realizing a married couple's residence. He worked to rebuild the Tsukiji Honganji Temple, which was destroyed by the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, and set up a temporary relief office in the area to spearhead the relief business. In addition, we built a nursery in Ueno Park and a temporary clinic in Hibiya Park. This was the basis of the present "Asoka Hospital".
Takeko Kujo was the origin of the Count Otani of Nishi Honganji Temple, and was not only a representative beauty of the Taisho era, but also a female poet and social entrepreneur. Mrs. Takeko Kujo of Tsukiji Honganji Temple poetry monument's Waka
poetry monument, Tsukiji Honganji, and the rest of the world.
He died at the age of 42 due to the onset of sepsis, probably because of the difficulty of struggling in the 1928 earthquake reconstruction project.
