Kitayama Honmonji Temple

Kitayama Honmonji

It was founded in 1298 (Eijin 5) by Nikko Shonin with the assistance of Nanjo Tokimitsu, the local lord of Ueno, and Ishikawa Magosaburo Yoshitada, the local lord of Kitayama. Kitayama Honmonji is a Nichiren sect temple also known as Jusu Honmonji, and belongs to the Fuji monk school which inherited the lineage of Nikko Shonin, one of the six senior disciples of Nichiren Shonin. It was counted as one of the five major head temples of the monk school, the Fuji Five Mountains: Kitayama Honmonji, Nishiyama Honmonji, Taisekiji, Koizumi Kuonji, and Shimojo Myorenji.