Hokoku ji

Hokoku-ji is an antique temple inside the Kencho-ji faculty of the Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism placed in Kamakura, Japan. Famous for its bamboo lawn, it is also called "Bamboo Temple". A statue of Gautama Buddha, known as Shaka Nyorai in Japanese, in a sacred corridor is the temple's most important image. The authentic of a statue of Sho Kan'non is on display on the Kamakura Museum of National Treasures. The temple is once in a while called Takuma-dera after the artist of a statue of Kashyap which become destroyed with the aid of a fireplace in 1891 in an adjacent hall.

The temple is No. 10 on the Kamakura 33 Kannon pilgrimage. The grounds cover approximately 13,000 square metres 140,000 squaretoes. The circle of relatives temple of each the Ashikaga and Uesugi clans, Hokoku-ji turned into installed through founding priest Tengan Eko in 1334 the primary year of the Kenmu technology to commemorate Ashikaga Ietoki, grandfather of Ashikaga Takauji the primary shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate. Known posthumously through his Buddhist call Butsujo Zenji, Eko was a member of the Five Mountains Zen literary school.

Copies that he made of Buddhist teachings and carved wood seals of his names Tengan and Eko are Important Cultural Properties and are within the Kamakura Museum at the grounds of the Shinto shrine Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gu. Other treasures owned by the temple consist of a painting on silk of Zaichu Koen relationship to 1388, a Muromachi-period portray of Arhats, and a couple of art work of flora and birds from Ming China, all Prefectural Cultural Properties stored in the equal museum; a number of in addition works were special for protection at a municipal degree.