Nio-mon Gate of Kongo-ji Temple (Courtesy of the Japanese Association for conservation of Architectural Monuments)

Nio-mon Gate of Kongo-ji Temple

National Cultural Important Properties (Buildings)

Designated on November 29, 1946

Nio-mon Gate of the temple has 3-ken and 1 door of the Ro-mon Style, seems to be constructed in the late Muromachi period, also the statues of Nio-zo set in the Gate seems to be built in Muromach period. By the repairment of the Gate in 1959, we found the evidence to be originally 2 stories, not to be 1 story that built in the Edo period. So the Gate is restored to the original state of 1 story now.

Wooden Statue of Fudo Myoo flanked by Two Youths Attendants

Wooden Statue of Fudo Myoo flanked by Two Youths Attendants

National Cultural Important Properties (Sculptures)

Designated on June 28, 1994

The Statue of Fudo Myoo installed in the posterior hall of Kongo-ji Temple by the triad style which brought Kongara-doji (the youth of Kongara) on the right of Fudo Myoo and Seitakadoji (the youth Seitaka) on the left. The Kongara and Seitaka are both originally in Sanskrit and mean attendant.

These statues seem to create in the late Heian period (11-12 century). The inscription on the halo of Fudo Myoo says that they had been damaged by the gale and repaired in the Nanbokucho period (1336-92).

Former Five- Gongen Hall of Kongo -ji Temple

Former Five- Gongen Hall of Kongo -ji Temple

Tangible Cultural Properties of Tokyo (Buildings)

Designated on February 13, 1960

Kongo-ji Kyu Gobugongen Shaden (Former Five- Gongen Hall of Kongo-ji Temple) was founded as a guardian deity of Kongo-ji Temple, which can be found on "Shinpen Musashi Fudokiko" (topography of Musashi Province in 1804-29), and the building is located in the depth of temple precinct. According to the legend of the temple, MINAMOTO no Yoriyoshi contributed to building a Hachiman-sha Shrine, after that enshrined together with the deities, Inari, Nyu, Koya and Seiryu Gongen, and became Gobu-gongen (5 deities). There five tablets enshrined at the shrine were inscribed with deities' names and the construction date, February 28th 1340. They are resistrated as National Important Arts.

The ridge tag tells that the present building was founded in 1340 and rebuilt in 1671. This building is important, as a rare example, having the evidence of existent in the early Edo period.

This building is 1.52m wide, and 1.30m deep at the beam with a copper sheet roof and a Kohai (step canopy, visitors face the main hall and worship under it). It is lacquered in vermilion, carvings are emphasized with ink and Kaerumata (strut looks like frog legs) of the step canopy are colored with ultramarine blue.

Goddess Benzaiten with 15 servants, Color painting on silk

Goddess Benzaiten with 15 servants, Color painting on silk

Tangible Cultural Properties of Hino City (Paintings)

Designated on February 22, 1988

Benzaiten (Saraswati), one of the Seven Deities of Good Fortune, honored by the water as Goddess of River, is popularly worshipped.

In this painting, Benzaiten is set on the center of the screen, and 15 servants line up in the below with two lines, and a Daikokuten with hood and moustache is set at the bottom center.

Archives of Takahata-san Kongo-ji Temple

Archives of Takahata-san Kongo-ji Temple

Tangible Cultural Properties of Tokyo (Old Documents)

Designated on March 6, 2000

Archives of Takahata-san Kongo-ji Temple consists of 4110 documents of the temple. They show not only the history, constructions and donation of the temple, but also political and social conditions, for example Sakurada incident, and the trends around the temple in the end of Edo period.

They have important historical value especially as the collective archives from the early Edo period to the early Showa period, which help us to know details of the temple's history and their social situation.

Monument of Two Great Martyrs

Monument of Two Great Martyrs

Historic Site of Hino City

Designated on October 1, 1961

This is a monument of honor for KONDO Isami and HIJIKATA Toshizo. Their family members and supporters including SATO Toshimasa (Hikogoro) had planned to erect a monument since 1876, however they couldn't easily obtain permission of the Governor of Kanagawa Prefecture, and at last it was built in 1888. On this monument, heroic deeds of these two heroes in Chinese writing were engraved, the writing by MATSUDAIRA Katamori (feudal lord of Aizu Domain) in characters used on seals, a composition by OTSUKI Bankei (a Confucian of Sendai Domain) and the writing by MATSUMOTO Jun (a doctor, who worked for the Shogunate)