Tanjoji

Tanjoji is a temple of the Nichiren Shu placed within the metropolis of Kamogawa in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Along with Kuon-ji in Yamanashi Prefecture, Ikegami Honmon-ji inside the south of Tokyo, and Seicho-ji also in Kamogawa City, Tanjoji is one of the Four Sacred Places of Nichiren Shu. A temple changed into based on the vicinity of Nichiren's birthplace in October 1276 with the aid of one of his disciples, Nichike. However, this early temple become destroyed by using an earthquake in 1498, and once more by way of an earthquake and tsunami in 1703, and became eventually relocated similarly inland.

The temple underwent a variety and reconstruction in the early 1700s beneath the sponsorship of Tokugawa Mitsukuni. However, except the Niomon, all systems in the temple burned down in a fireplace in 1758. The temple has slowly reconstructed when you consider that time, and has brought severa systems in the late twentieth century through the efforts of a lively lay business enterprise.