Pillars of the Wu family

() At the beginning of July, Yoshinori Kira received a beautiful invitation from the family of the middle school. The wedding ceremony between Toshimi and Yoko Kuga will be officially held on August [-]. In addition to the invitation, there is also a letterhead , the letter is a personal letter from his aunt, Fang Yutai. As the daughter of the Sanjo Nishi family, she has extraordinary attainments in Sinology and singing, not even inferior to his elder brother Sanjo Nishi Mizumi.

The exhibition letter is really extraordinary at first glance, the font is good-looking, and the wording is also smooth and smooth. It really is the daughter of the famous Sanjo Nishi family. Kira Yoshiki praised him. The general meaning in the letter is that his uncle still supports him, and he is close to the shogunate. Yes, but we must carefully grasp the direction, and at the same time hope that he will come to the home of the middle court as a guest more often.

Myoun Temple was completed on July [-]th. As the only temple in the Katada area, its completion put a lot of pressure on the stubborn Katada people. When Kira Yoshitoshi built Myoun Temple, he made a high-profile announcement of the establishment of the Kira family in Kyoto. The Bodhi Temple was moved to Omi Myoun Temple, and at the same time, the eminent monk Xi'an Xuanmi was invited from Kyoto Myoshin Temple to attend.

This eminent monk and Kuaichuan Shaoxi are also old acquaintances. The two practiced together in Miaoxin Temple and are close friends. As an opportunity for many years old friends to return to Kinki to serve as the abbot, Xi'an Xuanmi also presented five manuscripts of Buddhist scriptures. Ministry, a pair of sandalwood rosary beads, and Kuaichuan Shaoxi, as the founder of the mountain, presided over the foundation ceremony of the day.

As the founder of the foundation, Ji Liangyi offered 2000 Yongle coins on the spot, and sent 20 precious Buddhist scriptures from the Heian period and 100 Buddhist scriptures from the Kamakura period to Miaoyun Temple according to the tradition of the foundation, and sent each of the Buddhist scriptures repeated by the Kira family to Miaoyun Temple. A total of more than 300 such classics were sent to Miaoyun Temple. At the same time, some sandalwood, 20 catties of lamp oil, 500 stones of rice, 1000 sets of black clothes and hemp shoes were also given as gifts.

In the Sakyamuni Hall, a statue of Sakyamuni Tathagata is enshrined, which is the Buddha statue enshrined by the master of Miaoyun Temple. In addition, a Guanyin Hall is built in the west courtyard, in which the statue of Ruyilun Guanyin Bodhisattva is enshrined, which is the same as the Mixiang Temple in Sanhe. Avalokitesvara symbolizes mourning for deceased female relatives, so it is visited by many believers. A pharmacist hall is built in the east courtyard, in which is enshrined the Buddha statue of Liuliguang King Tathagata. Praying for health is also the most important thing for believers. So the three halls of Miaoyun Temple were built one after another.

In addition, there are many buildings such as the Royal Shadow Hall, the Lecture Hall, the Teaching Hall, the Bell Tower, the Taigu Gate, the Taixuan Gate, the Triple Pagoda, the Golden Hall, and the Canteen. The courtyard and other pagodas cover an area of ​​nearly [-] ping. There are gates in the east, west, south, and north. The temple walls are high and deep.

With such a scale and when the mountain was founded, this temple became a veritable first-class temple in Omi. Kira Yoshitoki promised Miaoun Temple to receive one hundred guanyongle coins and two hundred shi of grain every quarter, so that Kuaichuan Shaoxi did not have to plow the fields , You can study Buddhism with peace of mind.

Perhaps in terms of scale and number of monks, it can’t compare with Enli Temple, Yuancheng Temple and other temples at the level of the main mountain, but this emerging Buddhist temple uses many new architectural techniques, and it is rapidly growing. Under Chuan Shaoxi's painstaking efforts in the past three months, thousands of believers were gathered as soon as the foundation was opened, which made the inside and outside of the temple glow with prosperity. Even Master Xi'an Xuanmi also expressed his appreciation for Miaoyun Temple , and later learned from the conversation that this master and Kuaichuan Shaoxi had known each other for a long time and had a good relationship.

In late July, an important minister of the Imagawa family went to Sakamoto as an envoy. This time the envoy was the acquaintance Sekiguchi Ominaga. He presented the gifts that Imagawa Yoshimoto gave to Kira Yoshishi, Hanshu, waka collection, tea utensils, flute, zither, famous horse, strong Bows, famous knives and other miscellaneous things are given a little, which looks very inconspicuous, but if converted into copper coins, it can cost several thousand guan to get them.

Yoshitoki Kira warmly entertained Sekiguchi Kienaga and his team, and invited them to rest in the newly built residence hall outside Sakamoto Castle. Sekiguchi Kiyanagi was very interested in the newly built Sakamoto Town, especially after hearing about the Rakushi Order. I wanted to go to see the situation, and I was frightened by the bustling and bustling scene when I first arrived in Sakamoto Town. No one would have thought that this castle town had never existed two years ago.

While visiting Sakamoto Town, Kiyoshi Sekiguchi complimented the strength of the Kira family. When he came to Sakamoto Castle, Kira Yoshitoshi expressed the hope that the Imagawa family would strengthen the influence of Misang Anguo Zen Temple, and invited the disciples of Taiyuan Xuezhai to come to Xisanhe to preach. This request Naturally, Sekikou kissed Yong and agreed.

Yoshiki Kira has always been worried about the influence of the Ichiko clan in Mikawa. He is determined to use the power of the Imagawa family to suppress the influence of the Ichiko clan in the three counties of Hata, Bihai, and Utada. Doing personnel affairs, he wrote to Jiliang Yi'an, hoping that he would take the initiative to invite the apprentices of Taiyuan Xuezhai to come to Sanhe to study.

At the same time, he also gave advice to Kira Yoshian, asking him to invite retainers, nobles, and local servants in batches in the name of the Kira family to go to the Kira family to pay homage to the Xianganguo Zen Temple, which will be held on the first and fifteenth of each month, and will be expanded. The gate town of Mixiang Anguo Zen Temple gradually attracted popularity, and in this way slowly weakened the influence of Honjoji Temple.

In this way, even if Honjoji Temple, Shanggong Temple, and Shengman Temple knew that they were dealing with them, the monks of the Yixiangzong did not dare to act rashly, because the power of the Miaoshinji Temple in Sanhe Kingdom is also not weak, and they are all over Kinki , The Miaoshinji faction group in Tōkaidō and even the whole of Japan is even more colossal. Although it is not as belligerent as the Ichigo sect, once they are provoked, and the samurai family of the Myoshinji sect in Kinki make a fuss, I am afraid that Ishiyama Honganji will not be able to keep it.

He can be sure that Taiyuan Xuezhai, who is also from the Miaoxin Temple sect, can never sit idly by, and Imakawa Yoshimoto, who is from the Miaoxin Temple sect, can't just sit on the sidelines. , no matter what the final result is, Taiyuan Xuezhai will bring the army of the Imagawa family to avenge his juniors and disciples. The origin of Taiyuan Xuezhai is so deep that laymen don't even know it. <Just after the broadcast ended, the entire Kanto fell into a new war. Hojo Ujiyasu wanted to regain the lost territory of the Musashi Kingdom, and the Southern Kanto Allied Forces on the opposite side made a comeback unwillingly. This time they faced Satomi, Ota, Chiba, and Satake The [-] armies of the upper, lower, Anfang, and Hitachi countries led by the Kwantung samurai, Oda, Yuki, and Zhen Ligu.

In order to fight against the large army in the Kanto region, Hojo Ushiyasu led 1 people out of Edo Castle this time. The two sides confronted each other on both sides of the Arakawa River east of Edo Castle. He rushed over with his nephew Ashikaga Masaru, and before he got halfway there, he heard that Yoshiyao Satomi, who had no eyesight, brought out the little archer Fang Ashikaga Yoshitaka to be the commander-in-chief of the South Kanto people. The news that he himself served as the deputy commander in chief.

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