Shorinzan Honrenji Seirinzan Honrenji Temple

Let's find out more! Seirinzan Honrenji Temple

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  Nanban well ruins, one of the few remains from the Christian era

  A must-see is the valuable ruins of Nanban Ido!

  Before Honrenji Temple was built, there was San Lazaro Hospital for Hansen's Disease patients built on this site with donations from Portuguese captain Bereira, who entered the port in 19.・There was the church of João Bautista.
  A remnant of the church era is the Nanban well that still stands in the garden on the right side of the main hall.
  This well was dug during the Christian temple era, and one theory is that it was dug as a loophole to access Nagasaki Port, as at that time there was water all the way to the bottom of the temple.
  The entrance is currently locked, so please call the temple office if you wish to take a tour.

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  The temple where Kaishu Katsu stayed for four years

  Honrenji Temple is also the home of Kaishu Katsu, a politician from the end of the Edo period and the Meiji period who devoted his efforts to opening the country.
  In 2, Kaishu Katsu came to Sakizaki as the head of training at the Navy training school established in the Nagasaki Magistrate's West Office (currently the prefectural office) and stayed at Taijo-in Temple in the grounds of Honren-ji Temple for four years. . It is said that he enthusiastically studied foreign cultures.
  He also had a romance with a woman from Nagasaki named Kajikuma (commonly known as Oku), and their descendants are said to live in America.