Tsuugenmon (通玄門), Manpukuji (萬福寺)

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Tsuugenmon (通玄門), Manpukuji (萬福寺) Tang, Rouying; Jia, Xixi; Dong, Junru

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The Tsuugenmon (通玄門) at Manpukuji (萬福寺), an Ōbaku Zen (黄檗) temple in Uji 宇治, Kyoto prefecture 京都府, Japan (Image 01 ). The wooden plaque above the gate reads "通玄". It was written by Yinyuan Longqi (Jp. Ingen Ryūki) 隠元隆琦 (1592-1673) in 1665 at the age of 73 (Image 02, Image 03, and Image 04). A pair of couplet plaque flank the right and left side of the gate. The first line of the couplet (right) reads "門開蘭桂香弥遠" (Image 05). The second line of the couplet (left) reads "塔蔭人天福莫量" (Image 06, Image 07, and Image 08). For more details, please check: Ōbakusan rengakushu 黄檗山额集, (Manpukuji, 2022); Fumio Nakao文雄中尾, Ōbakusan no ren to gaku 黃檗山の聯と額, (1990); Ōbakusan shodō rengaku 黄檗山諸堂聯額, (Manpukuji).

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Title	Tsuugenmon (通玄門), Manpukuji (萬福寺)
Creator	Tang, Rouying; Jia, Xixi; Dong, Junru
Contributor	From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued	2023-07-25
Description	The Tsuugenmon (通玄門) at Manpukuji (萬福寺), an Ōbaku Zen (黄檗) temple in Uji 宇治, Kyoto prefecture 京都府, Japan (Image 01 ). The wooden plaque above the gate reads "通玄". It was written by Yinyuan Longqi (Jp. Ingen Ryūki) 隠元隆琦 (1592-1673) in 1665 at the age of 73 (Image 02, Image 03, and Image 04). A pair of couplet plaque flank the right and left side of the gate. The first line of the couplet (right) reads "門開蘭桂香弥遠" (Image 05). The second line of the couplet (left) reads "塔蔭人天福莫量" (Image 06, Image 07, and Image 08). For more details, please check: Ōbakusan rengakushu 黄檗山额集, (Manpukuji, 2022); Fumio Nakao文雄中尾, Ōbakusan no ren to gaku 黃檗山の聯と額, (1990); Ōbakusan shodō rengaku 黄檗山諸堂聯額, (Manpukuji).
Subject	Manpukuji; Wanfu Temple; Buddhism; Zen; Japanese religion; Obaku; 17th century; Plaque; Calligraphy; Couplet; Monk
Geographic Location	Uji (Japan); Kyoto (Japan); 34.9141741; 135.8063141
Type	Still Image
Language	chi; jpn
Notes	Author affiliations: Temple University, École pratique des hautes études-Université PSL, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Series	Cluster 1.5: Extended Textual Communities
Date Available	2024-01-04
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0438445
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87106
Affiliation	Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Graduate
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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