Ямадера: Древний буддийский храм в префектуре Ямагата

Buddhist temple in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
You may also be looking for the voice actor Kōichi Yamadera. Yama dera (山寺), (山号 宝珠山; Sangō Hōshu zan) is the popular name for the Buddhist temple of Risshaku ji (立石寺) located northeast of Yamagata City, in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. Its main image is a hibutsu statue of Yakushi Nyōrai. The temple has been a place for pilgrimage for centuries, and is designated as both a Place of Scenic Beauty and as a National Historic Site It is located within the borders of the Zaō Quasi National Park. The temple buildings clinging to the steep, forested, rocky hillsides are picturesque and unusual.

According to temple tradition, it was founded in 860 AD by the priest Ennin, who is better known by his posthumous name, Jikaku Daishi (慈覺大師). In 847 AD Ennin returned to Japan from studies in Tang dynasty China and in 854 AD he became the chief priest of the Tendai sect at Enryaku ji on Mt. Hiei near Kyoto. Risshaku ji was founded as a branch temple of Enryaku ji by the order of Emperor Seiwa, and to this day the ritual fire brought from Enryaku ji is still burning in the main temple. The exact date and circumstances of the foundation of the temple are uncertain, but it dates to at least the early Heian period based on dating of the oldest of its surviving wooden statuary. The temple has a long standing tradition that it houses the grave of Ennin in a cave within the temple grounds. Although Enning died on Mount Hiei in 864 AD, and there is no record that his remains were transferred here, Ann archaeological investigation in 1948 found a gold leaf encrusted casket containing five sets of human remains and fragments of a Heian period wooden statue of Ennin within the cave. The temple developed into the major Heian period center for Buddhism in Dewa Province (now Yamagata and Akita prefectures). The temple was patronized by the Kamakura shogunate and grew in territory. It was rebuilt after a fire in the mid 13th century and was converted to Zen Buddhism. The current Min Hall, known here as the Konpon chūdō was rebuilt in 1356 by Shiba Kaneyori, lord of Yamagata Castle, who also returned it to the Tendai sect. It was visited by the artist Sesshū Tōyō in 1482, who made many sketches of its precincts. The temple was burned down again during the wars of the Sengoku period, but was restored by the Date clan and the Mogami clan. Under the Edo Period Tokugawa shogunate, it was awarded estates with a kokudaka of 1420 koku for its upkeep.