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Zenpuku-ji

Buddhist temple in Tokyo, Japan

Zenpuku-ji 善福寺
Central gate (chokushimon)
Religion
Affiliation	Jōdo Shinshū Honganji-ha
Deity	Amida Nyorai (Amitābha)
Location
Location	1-6-21 Motoazabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo Prefecture
Country	Japan
Geographic coordinates	35°39′12.8″N 139°43′58.1″E / 35.653556°N 139.732806°E / 35.653556; 139.732806
Architecture
Founder	Kūkai (acc. legend)
Completed	824; 1200 years ago (824) (legend)

Zenpuku-ji (善福寺), also known as Azabu-san (麻布山), is a Jōdo Shinshū temple located in the Azabu district of Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the oldest Tokyo temples, after Asakusa.

Founded by Kūkai in 824, Zenpuku-ji was originally a Shingon temple. Shinran visited the temple during the Kamakura period and brought the temple into the Jodo Shinshu sect.

Under the 1859 Treaty of Amity and Commerce, the first Tokyo legation of the United States of America was established at Zenpuku-ji under Consul-General Townsend Harris.

• There is a monument to Townsend Harris and the First American Legation in Tokyo.
• A 750-year-old ginkgo tree at the entry to the cemetery, purportedly planted by Shinran and called "the upside down tree" (the largest ginkgo in Tokyo today), is a registered National Natural Monument
• A well in the approach to the shrine is supposed to have been struck by Kukai's bishop's staff. This well served the community during the Great Kantō earthquake and the Great Tokyo Air Raid.

• Henry Heusken, attacked by rōninatNakanohashi on January 14, 1861, was brought back to Zenpukuji to die. The funeral procession from there to nearby Korinji was a critical confrontation between the bakufu and the foreign legations.^[1]
• Masuda Takashi, founder of Mitsui, served as an interpreter there at the age of 14.

• Fukuzawa Yukichi, founder of Keio University

• For an explanation of terms concerning Japanese Buddhism, Japanese Buddhist art, and Japanese Buddhist temple architecture, see the Glossary of Japanese Buddhism.

• Official website

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