Category:

Municipally Designated Tangible Cultural Property (Ancient document)

Title:

Jigenji shuinjo

The Jigenji Temple Red-Sealed Charters

慈眼寺朱印状

No. of features:

12 letters

Designated:

June 6, 1980

Location:

Jigenji Temple, 462 Mizuhata, Nishi Ward

Owner:

The religious juridical person of Jigenji Temple

Description:

Twelve red-sealed charters (shuinjo) issued by multiple generations of the Tokugawa clan.  Includes a November 1591 missive from Tokugawa Ieyasu granting ten koku* of land within the Mizuhata section of the Adachi district to the temple.

*Here, one koku indicates the amount of land needed to produce enough rice to feed a single person for one year (one koku ≅ 180 L).

Associated Texts:

Cultural Properties in Omiya 1., Omiya Municipal Board of Education, 1986.

This cultural property is not available for public viewing.

Inquiries (Japanese only)

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

TEL: 048-829-1723 FAX: 048-829-1989

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