Category:

Municipally Designated Historic Site

Title:

Onari yakata ato

The Site of Onari Manor

大成館跡

No. of features:

N/A

Designated:

March 6, 1957

Location:

2-402 Onaricho, Omiya Ward

Owner:

The religious juridical person of Fumonin Temple

Description:

 The site of the estate of Kaneko Onari, provincial governor of Surugu. Kaneko Onari was a feudal lord who oversaw Onari and the Sajikawa region of the Uetaya territory  (the modern-day Sajikawa neighborhood in Nishi Ward) during Japan’s medieval age (1185~1573).

  It is said that Kaneko turned his manor into a Zen hermitage after being converted to the Soto school of Zen Buddhism in 1426 by Gekko Shobun, a high-ranking monk who traveled throughout the Kanto region.

Kaneko’s conversion is said to be the origin of the modern-day Fumonin Temple. The “mountain name” of Fumonin Temple is “Onarisan”, or, Mt. Onari.

 Small vestiges of the estate, such as the western riding ground, the site of a river embankment called “The Blacksmith’s Bank” (kajiya zutsumi), and the mansion’s gates are still visible outside of the temple doors.   

Associated Texts:

(1960). “Cultural Properties in Omiya” (vol. 1). Omiya Municipal Board of Education.

(1965). “Cultural Properties in Omiya”. Omiya Municipal Board of Education.

(1987). “Cultural Properties in Omiya” (vol. 3). Omiya Municipal Board of Education.

Please be courteous towards other visitors 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/p000490.html