Ankoku-ji

Ankoku-ji (安国寺, Ankoku-ji) is a kind of Buddhist temple. Ankoku-ji may mean "Temple for National Pacification". There are numerous Ankoku-ji throughout Japan and the world.

The Ankoku-ji system was developed under the Ashikaga shogunate, as part of its stabilizing the country. The within Higashi-ku, Hiroshima, for example, was built by Shōgun Takauji Ashikaga as one of 60 Ankoku-ji temples which were constructed in all provinces across Japan, in the 14th century.

Specific ones in Japan include:

• , located in Kōta, Aichi Prefecture
• , located in Aira, Kagoshima Prefecture
• , located in Ayabe, Kyoto Prefecture
• , located in Azumino, Nagano Prefecture
• , located in Chino, Nagano Prefecture
• in Higashi-Ku, Ushita-shinmachi, Hiroshima.
• , located in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture
• Ankoku-ji (Fukuyama), located in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture
• , located in Ikeda, Gifu Prefecture
• , located in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture
• , located in Iki, Nagasaki Prefecture
• , located in Iwanuma, Miyagi Prefecture
• , located in Katori, Chiba Prefecture
• , located in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture
• , located in Kunisaki, Ōita Prefecture
• , located in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture
• , located in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture
• , located in Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture
• , located in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture
• , located in Nankan, Kumamoto Prefecture
• , located in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture
• , located in Saikai, Nagasaki Prefecture
• , located in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture
• , located in Shimotsuke, Tochigi Prefecture
• , located in Takarazuka, Hyōgo Prefecture
• , located in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture
• , located in Toyooka, Hyōgo Prefecture
• , located in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture

Further reading[]

• Dumoulin, Heinrich (2005). Zen Buddhism: A History. 2: Japan. Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom. ISBN 0-941532-90-9.