著者

福江 充

出版者

北陸大学

雑誌

北陸大学紀要 = Bulletin of Hokuriku University (ISSN:21863989)

巻号頁・発行日

no.48, pp.65-75, 2020-03-31

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This paper reports on the recent discovery of an entry on the temple Shin-Zenkōji (inŌsumi's Soo-gun Takarabe-gō) in the Edo-period compilation of Satsuma history and loreentitled Sangoku meisho zue . According to the entry, Shin-Zenkōji, located in Takarabe-gōMoto-mura (the present-day Kitamata Sakamoto-chiku, Takarabe-chō, Soo-shi,Kagoshima), was established as a Shingon temple by a resident of Etchū's Tateyamanamed Niho Sakyō at the behest of Minamoto Yoritomo. For the new temple's main icon,Niho Sakyō had a bronze copy cast of the gilded-bronze Buddha worshipped at Shinano'sZenkōji. Some generations after Niho Sakyō's time, however, both Shin-Zenkōji's land andthat of the Niho family became public property, and the temple was abandoned. Because ofthis, the entry claims, the temple's sculpture of the Buddha Amida was transferred to theShingon temple Busshō-in in Takarabe-gō Sakuragi-mura.As early as the 1980s, Kubo Naofumi briefly wrote about the Zenkōji cult in Etchū in theToyama kenshi (Tsūshi-hen II Chūsei). There was additional research by Kubo andUshiyama Yoshiyuki in the 1990s, and by Suzuki Keiji in the 2000s, but a dearth ofrelevant historical materials has constrained more extensive studies of this theme. TheShin-Zenkōji mention is, therefore, extremely important for understanding the medievalZenkōji cult in Etchū as well as the relationship between the Tateyama and Zenkōji cults.This paper introduces the newly discovered entry.越中の善光寺信仰については、早くは1980年代に『富山県史(通史編Ⅱ中世)』のなかに、久保尚文氏による若干の言及が見られる。その後、1990年代に入ると久保氏と牛山佳幸氏、そして2000年代に入ると鈴木景二氏の論文が見られるものの、関係史料が僅かなため、それほど多くはない。そうした研究状況のもと、筆者は最近、薩摩藩の江戸時代後期の地誌『三国名勝図絵』のなかに、大隅国曽於郡財部郷の新善光寺に関する記載を発見した。本稿ではこの史料を翻刻・分析し、越中における中世の善光寺信仰、及び立山信仰と善光寺信仰との関係などを考察する。