Dōjō-ji

Dōjō-ji (道成寺) is a Tendai school Buddhist temple in Hidakagawa, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. Founded in 701, it has given name to a number of plays, the statues of Senjū Kannon, Nikkō Bosatsu, and Gakkō Bosatsu are National Treasures, and there are a number of other Important Cultural Properties.[1][2]

Dōjō-ji
道成寺
Hondō (1357) and Three-storey pagoda (1763)
Religion
AffiliationTendai
DeitySenjū Kannon
Location
Location1738 Kanemaki, Hidakagawa, Wakayama Prefecture
CountryJapan
Architecture
Completed701
Website
http://www.dojoji.com/

Buildings

Treasures
Wooden statue of Senjū Kannon (Heian period) (National Treasure)
Dōjō-ji Engi emaki (Muromachi period); Important Cultural Property

Anchin and Kiyohime
Dōjōji, Noh play

The story of the monk Anchin (安珍) and his spurned lover Kiyohime (清姫) who, devoured by her passion and jealousy, turns into a serpent and pursues him to his destruction, is the subject of the Noh play Dōjōji, known for the rare prominence of its dramatic prop, the temple bell;[16][17] as well as the Kabuki play Musume Dōjōji with its long onnagata buyō.[18]

See also

References
  1. "Dojoji Temple". Hidakagawa Town. Archived from the original on 29 April 2011. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
  2. "Dojoji". Wakayama Prefecture. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
  3. "Database of National Cultural Properties". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
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  12. "Database of National Cultural Properties". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
  13. "Wakayama bunkazai". Wakayama Prefecture. Archived from the original on 22 May 2009. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
  14. "Database of National Cultural Properties". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
  15. Waters, Virginia Skord (1997). "Sex, Lies, and the Illustrated Scroll: The Dojoji Engi Emaki". Monumenta Nipponica. Sophia University. 52 (1): 59–84. doi:10.2307/2385487.
  16. Keene, Donald (1970). 20 Plays of the Nō Theatre. Columbia University Press. pp. 238–252. ISBN 0-231-03455-5.
  17. Klein, Susan Blakeley (1991). "When the Moon Strikes the Bell: Desire and Enlightenment in the Noh Play Dojoji". Journal of Japanese Studies. The Society for Japanese Studies. 17 (2): 291–322. doi:10.2307/132744.
  18. "Kabuki repertoire - Kyoganako musume dojoji". National Theatre of Japan. Archived from the original on 29 May 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2011.

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