Banshō-ji
Buddhist temple in Nagoya, Japan
Banshō-ji (万松寺) is a small temple located in Ōsu in central Nagoya, Japan.
Lord Oda Nobuhide (1510?-1552) built this Sōtō Buddhist temple in the then village of Nagoya in 1540, and invited the priest Daiun to open it. Katō Kiyomasa (1562–1611) stayed at the temple, which served as his quarters while he was engaged in the construction of Nagoya Castle. The temple was rebuilt in 1610 at its present site.
Directly located at the main street is the stone gate. Two kitsune (fox spirits) guard the entrance. Many paper lanterns give light.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Banshō-ji” as buddhist temple in Nagoya, Japan. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as buddhist temple in Nagoya, Japan. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q608994. VIAF identifies the subject as 260502987. Authority coordinates are 35.159, 136.905. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1510, 1552, 1540 and 1562.
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This entry incorporates text from “Banshō-ji” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.