Category:

Municipally Designated Historic Site

Title:

Hatamoto aoki takayori ichizoku no haka oyobi hokyointo

The Family Cemetery and Hokyointo Pagoda of Aoki Takayori, Retainer of the Shogunate

旗本青木高頼一族の墓及び宝篋印塔

No. of features:

34

Designated:

April 03, 2000

Location:

Minami-Nakano 451, Minuma Ward

Owner:

The religious juridical person of Shohoin Temple

Description:

The Aoki family served the shogunate as “ryoban” (“shoinban” (castle guards) and “koshogumi” (page corps)) from 1584 until the end of the Edo period (1603-1868). The family was given land in Musashi Province’s Adachi district and Kazusa Province’s Amaha district, which they ruled without interruption for more than 260 years,

The Aoki family home was in Edo, but Aoki Takayori established Bodaiji Temple within the family’s territory on the grounds of Shohoin Temple in Nakano Village (present-day  Minami-Nakano, Kita Ward).

Shohoin Temple has a “hokyointo” pagoda and 33 tombstones spanning from the progenitor Takayori to his distant descendant Tetsunosuke, ten generations in all. The hokyointo pagoda belonged to Masanori, a sixth-generation descendant of the family.

Associated Texts:

(1979). “Survey Report on Omiya City’s Cultural Properties” (vol. 3). Omiya Municipal Board of Education.

(2002). “Survey Report on Saitama City’s Cultural Properties” (vol. 1). Saitama Municipal Board of Education.

Please be courteous towards other visitors, worshippers, locals, and the site’s owners/curators when visiting this cultural property.

Inquiries (Japanese only)

Cultural Heritage Preservation Division, Department of Lifelong Learning, Board of Education Secretariat　

TEL：048-829-1723 FAX：048-829-1989

https://www.city.saitama.jp/004/005/006/001/005/001/003/p000515.html