堅田、３月 (23) ～Imakatata/今堅田 065

今堅田の泉福寺もまた、蓮如と縁の深いお寺。
（参考）比叡山延暦寺が本願寺と蓮如を仏敵としたことで、蓮如は京都を追われた。
応仁元年（1467）、蓮如は、本堅田の本福寺に身を寄せて、再興の時を待つ。
応仁二年（1468）、延暦寺西塔の衆徒が、大軍を もって堅田を攻撃した（堅田大責）。
蓮如は、比叡山に近い堅田の地をあきらめ、文明三年（1471）4月、越前吉崎へと向かうことになる。
Sempuku-ji temple in Imakatata is also closely connected with Rennyo.
Rennyo (1415-1499) was the 8th head-priest of the Jōdo Shinshū sect of Buddhism.
Enryaku-ji temple considered that Rennyo and  his temple Hongan-ji ( in Kyoto) the enemies of the Buddha,
and  Enryaku-ji  temple oppressed them. Hongan-ji  temple was destroyed and he led the life as a fugitive.
He stayed at  Honpuku-ji temple in Honkatata and waited for the time of revival in 1467.
Enryaku-ji  temple attacked Katata  with the large force in 1468 (it is called Katata Ozeme).
He gave up making Katata into headquarters. It is because Katata was close to Enryaku-ji temple.
In April, 1471, he went to Echizen Yosizaki which was a still more distant place from Kyoto.

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堅田（滋賀県大津市）の写真　今堅田　「泉福寺２」　2008.03.18　12：55
photograph of Katata,Otsu,Shiga,Japan  Imakatata "Senpuku-ju temple"２  2008.03.18　12：55