JOEIJI SESSUTEI 常栄寺 雪舟庭 Nov 15, 2024
The garden was built by the Buddhist artist Sesshu as a villa for Ouchi Masahiro, about 500 years ago during the Myokiji Temple era, and is now a designated national historic site and scenic spot.
Sesshu is famous for the anecdote of painting a mouse with tears while he was a novice at Hofuku-ji Temple in Soja City, Okayama Prefecture, but later he traveled to China to study and was known as the master of painting.
Joei-ji Temple was built about 500 years ago by Ouchi Masahiro as a villa, and it is said that he commissioned Sesshu to create the garden. Later, Masahiro made it Myoki-ji Temple, a temple to pray for the soul of his mother, but as times changed, it was merged with Joei-ji Temple, the family temple of Mori Takamoto, to become Joei-ji Temple.
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庭園は、今から約500年前、妙喜寺の時代に、大内政弘が別荘として、画僧雪舟に築庭させたものと伝えられ、現在国の史跡及び名勝に指定されています。
雪舟といえば岡山県総社市の宝福寺での小僧時代、涙で鼠を描いた逸話は有名ですが、後年中国に遊学して画聖と称せられるまでになりました。
この常栄寺は凡そ500年前、大内正弘が別邸として建てたもので、庭は雪舟に依頼して築庭させたものといわれています。後に正弘は母の菩提を弔うための寺、妙喜寺としましたが、時代の変遷に伴い毛利隆元の菩提寺、常栄寺と合寺し、常栄寺となりました。
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