kou dai tera

📍 Nagasaki, 晧台寺（こうたいじ）は、長崎市 · kou dai tera ( koutaiji ) ha , nagasakiken nagasakishi niaru bukkyou jiin ( soutou shuu ) . seishiki niha kaiun yama fu akira kou dai zendera toiu . nagasakishinai soto ni matsuji ga 14 ke tera aru .

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About

Mountain 海雲山

Sect 曹洞宗

Founded 1607

Founder 長谷川藤広（長崎奉行）

📿 Goshuin Info

Hours

9:00–17:00

Fee

¥300

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Available

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History

Kotaiji, formally known as Kaiuzan Fusho Kotai Zenji, is a Soto Zen temple in Nagasaki City, founded in 1607 by Nagasaki magistrate Hasegawa Fujihiro, who invited Zen master Taiso Genzetsu from Kenninji in Kyoto. One of the three great temples of Nagasaki, it oversees fourteen branch temples throughout the city and beyond. Through the years of Nagasaki as Japan's sole open port, through the upheavals of the Bakumatsu period, and through recovery from the atomic bombing, the temple has endured as a spiritual landmark of the city.