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*(Continuation from the previous entry — likely Saishōji)*
...and is said to have been made by [the aforementioned master]. It is transmitted that during the Enryaku era (782–806), the Great Teacher Dengyō (Saichō, founder of the Tendai sect) received an imperial decree from Emperor Kanmu and, for the purpose of protecting the nation and warding off calamity and prolonging life, carved this sacred image on Mount Hiei. However, in the second year of Genki (1571), the year of Kanoto-Hitsuji, when Oda Nobunaga set fire to Mount Hiei, all the Buddhist halls and monks' quarters were reduced to ashes. At that time, a devoted guardian managed to rescue only this principal icon and kept it safe. Later, Emperor Gomizunoo, being deeply devoted to the Buddhist teaching, paid reverence to this image and further bestowed his own imperial calligraphy, adding the honorific title "Śākyamuni Buddha." Master Nichii received this principal image with deep reverence, opened this temple, and enshrined the image here — or so it is said.
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### Unkyōzan Sōsanji Temple
Located in the same district, at Benzaiten-chō. [The locals call this area *Todomeki*.] It is a Zen temple of the Sōtō school, affiliated with Kichijōji temple in Komagome. The principal image is Śākyamuni Tathāgata, with Mañjuśrī (Monju) and Samantabhadra (Fugen) as attendant bodhisattvas. The founding abbot is known by the name "Kan'ei Rinnetsu Oshō." The plaque above the main gate (*sōmon*), reading "The First Principle" (*Daiichigi*), is in the hand of Zen Master Shin'etsu. The plaque above the inner gate (*chūmon*), reading "Unkyōzan," is by Oka Ryōhitsu. The three characters "Sōsanji" on the plaque of the main Buddha Hall (*butsuden*) are by Kiyō Dōei. The plaque of the meditation hall (*zendō*) is said to be by Ōbaku Etsuzan. The founding patron (*kaiki*) of this temple is referred to as "Ushigome Kunaishōyū Fujiwara no Katsuyuki." [He was appointed to the Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade (*Jugoi-no-ge*) in the first year of Kōji (1555). His posthumous Buddhist name is "Sanshūin-dono Shinge Seiun Annushi."]
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[There are graves within this temple's precinct.] Ōgo Shigetoshi, a descendant of Chinjufu Shōgun Musashi-no-kami Hidesato [who built a castle in Ōgo, Kōzuke Province, and resided there, and was thus called "Ōgo Tarō"] — by the time of Shigeyuki, the family moved to live in Ushigome here. The local people called them "Ushigome-dono" (Lord of Ushigome). According to one account, a certain genealogy states: "Ōgo Tarō Nariyuki — his tenth-generation descendant, Hikojirō Shigeharu, moved from Ōgo in Jōshū (Kōzuke Province) to Ushigome in Bushū (Musashi Province)," and so forth.
[Shigeyuki] was the eldest son of the tenth-generation descendant Shigeyuki. [Shigeyuki held the title of Kunaishōyū; his posthumous Buddhist name was "Unkyōin-dono Jitsuō Sōsan Daian-nushi." He died in the twelfth year of Tenbun (1543). There is also a grave at this temple.] He served under the command of Hōjō Ujiyasu and held domains in Ushigome in Musashi Province, as well as Imai [possibly the Imai in Akasaka], Sakurada, and Hibiya [one account says the genealogy writes it as *Hibiya* with different characters], and further, Horikiri and Chiba in Shimōsa Province, and other lands, residing in Ushigome.
[In the Eiroku-era domain register (*bunken-chō*) of the Hōjō clan, the domains of Edo, Ushigome, Hibiya, Hongō, and Horikiri in Kasai are listed as being held by the Ōgo clan, though the names Imai and Chiba do not appear. According to one account, the Ushigome clan genealogy lists among the clan's holdings: Ushigome, and further Takada, Ochiai, Sekiguchi, Kohinata, Totsuka, Kanasuki in Koishikawa, Ichigaya, Tayasu, Sakurada, Asakusa (*Asakusa* written as *Asakusa*), and Kanasuki in the same area, among other place names. Note: the document's "Asakusa" (朝草) is presumably a variant writing of "Asakusa" (浅草).]
In the thirteenth year of Tenbun (1544), the year of Kinoe-Tatsu, in order to pray for the repose of his deceased father Shigeyuki's soul, [Katsuyuki] founded this temple, donated temple lands (*jitta*), and named the temple after his father Shigeyuki's posthumous Buddhist title. In the twenty-fourth year of the same era (1555), the year of Kinoto-U, he was appointed to the Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade. At that time, he informed Ujiyasu and changed the family surname from "Ōgo" to "Ushigome," taking the name of his principal fief.
[In the eighteenth year of Tenshō (1590), after the fall of the Hōjō clan, Katsuyuki's son Katsushige, in the nineteenth year of Tenshō (1591), first had the honor of an audience with the Great Divine Lord (Tokugawa Ieyasu), and thereafter served under his banner. According to another account, Katsuyuki's son was named Toshishige, and in the fifteenth year of Keichō (1610) he first paid respects to the Third Shōgun and entered the service of the Tokugawa house. Which of these two accounts is correct remains unclear.]
**Graves of Ōgo Shigeyuki and his son Katsuyuki**
[Located within the temple grounds, among the *rantō* (egg-shaped grave markers). A single stone stele is engraved with the posthumous Buddhist names of father and son and a record of their biographies. According to one account, it is in the hand of Ōtaka Sueakira.]