Sanmon-Santō Sakamoto Sōezu ( Japanese: 山門三塔坂本惣絵図, The Whole Maps of the three Areas of Enryakuji Temple on Mount Hiei and the Area of Sakamoto) is the two old maps that shows the precincts of Enryakuji Temple ( Japanese: 延暦寺, Hepburn: Enryakuji) on Mount Hiei ( Japanese: 比叡山, Hepburn: Hieizan) and Sakamoto area ( Japanese: 坂本, Hepburn: Sakamoto) at the foot of Mount Hiei, Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. The maps was made in 1767 [1] [2] (the middle of the Edo period, Japan). The author is unknown.
The meaning of the title, Sanmon-Santō Sakamoto Sōezu, is "the whole map of the three areas of Enryakuji Temple on Mount Hiei and the area of Sakamoto".
The meanings of the words that make up the title, Sanmon-Santō Sakamoto Sōezu, are as follows.
Enryakuji Temple is registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as one of the 17 temples and shrines that make up the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities). [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] In addition, Enryakuji Temple possesses several Japanese national treasures, including Konpon-chūdō ( Japanese: 根本中堂, The largest central main hall of Enryakuji Temple), and numerous Japanese important cultural properties. Therefore, Enryakuji Temple is a historically and culturally important place, and it once had possessed far more cultural properties and historical documents than are still in existence.
But the enormous cultural properties and historical documents of Enryakuji Temple suffered damage from the Siege of Mount Hiei in 1571 and much of these were lost. Currently, there are only a few historical documents that can tell us what the precincts of Enryakuji Temple in the past looked like.
Sanmon-Santō Sakamoto Sōezu is probably the most detailed pictorial old maps of the precincts of Enryakuji Temple in existence and also shows the halls of temples and shrines that may have existed before 1571. [8] Therefore, these maps are valuable historical documents to know about what the precincts in the past looked like.
Currently, these maps are one of the collections in the National Archives of Japan (NAJ). (These maps were formerly one of the collections in the Japanese Cabinet Library.)
Sanmon-Santō Sakamoto Sōezu ( Japanese: 山門三塔坂本惣絵図, The Whole Maps of the three Areas of Enryakuji Temple on Mount Hiei and the Area of Sakamoto) is the two old maps that shows the precincts of Enryakuji Temple ( Japanese: 延暦寺, Hepburn: Enryakuji) on Mount Hiei ( Japanese: 比叡山, Hepburn: Hieizan) and Sakamoto area ( Japanese: 坂本, Hepburn: Sakamoto) at the foot of Mount Hiei, Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. The maps was made in 1767 [1] [2] (the middle of the Edo period, Japan). The author is unknown.
The meaning of the title, Sanmon-Santō Sakamoto Sōezu, is "the whole map of the three areas of Enryakuji Temple on Mount Hiei and the area of Sakamoto".
The meanings of the words that make up the title, Sanmon-Santō Sakamoto Sōezu, are as follows.
Enryakuji Temple is registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as one of the 17 temples and shrines that make up the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities). [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] In addition, Enryakuji Temple possesses several Japanese national treasures, including Konpon-chūdō ( Japanese: 根本中堂, The largest central main hall of Enryakuji Temple), and numerous Japanese important cultural properties. Therefore, Enryakuji Temple is a historically and culturally important place, and it once had possessed far more cultural properties and historical documents than are still in existence.
But the enormous cultural properties and historical documents of Enryakuji Temple suffered damage from the Siege of Mount Hiei in 1571 and much of these were lost. Currently, there are only a few historical documents that can tell us what the precincts of Enryakuji Temple in the past looked like.
Sanmon-Santō Sakamoto Sōezu is probably the most detailed pictorial old maps of the precincts of Enryakuji Temple in existence and also shows the halls of temples and shrines that may have existed before 1571. [8] Therefore, these maps are valuable historical documents to know about what the precincts in the past looked like.
Currently, these maps are one of the collections in the National Archives of Japan (NAJ). (These maps were formerly one of the collections in the Japanese Cabinet Library.)