「旧 泉蔵坊」 福岡県 "Kyu Senzobo" Fukuoka Pref

「旧 泉蔵坊」 福岡県田川郡

英彦山は、平安時代から山岳信仰の聖地として知られ、特に神仏習合の修験道が盛んでした。江戸時代には3000人以上の修験者が住み、800の坊舎が建ち並んだほど栄えていたと言われています。室町時代には明朝から帰国した雪舟が、応仁の乱で京都に帰れなくなり、英彦山に３年間滞在し複数の庭を作ったと伝わっています。英彦山では多くの宿坊が茶を栽培し茶室を設け豊かな庭園文化が花開いていました。明治維新の神仏分離令・廃仏毀釈により、修験道は禁止されほぼ全ての宿坊が消滅し、庭園は荒れ果て草木に埋もれていきました。宿坊の多くは山上の斜面に石垣で築かれた「谷」とよばれるひな壇状の土地に集まっていました。現在でも英彦山の深い山あいには宿坊を失った「谷」の石垣や階段が遺跡となって残されています。その谷の一つ「玉屋谷」に雪舟作庭の伝承が残る「泉蔵坊」があります。場所も地元の一部の人が知っているだけで一般の人が訪れることはできませんが貴重な庭園の遺構が残されていますので写真を公開します。

◼︎名称：「旧 泉蔵坊」

◼︎住所：福岡県田川郡添田町英彦山

◼︎TEL: なし

◼︎アクセス：深山につき遭難のおそれがあるため非公開です。

"Kyu Senzobo" Tagawa-gun, Fukuoka Prefecture

Hikosan has been known as a sacred place of mountain worship since the Heian period, and Shugendo, a syncretic religion of Shinto and Buddhism, was particularly popular. In the Kamakura period, Shugendo practitioners gathered here, and in the Edo period, it is said that it flourished to the point where more than 3,000 Shugendo practitioners lived and 800 temple buildings were built. During the Muromachi period, it is said that Sesshu, who returned from the Ming Dynasty, stayed at Hikosan for three years and created several gardens because he was unable to return to Kyoto due to the Onin War. Many lodgings at Hikosan cultivated tea and set up teahouses, and a rich garden culture flourished. Due to the Shinbutsu Bunri Rei (law to separate Buddhism from Shinto) and Haibutsu Kishaku (Buddhist demolition) of the Meiji Restoration, Shugendo was banned, almost all lodgings disappeared, and the gardens fell into disrepair and were buried in vegetation. Many of the lodgings are clustered in terraced areas called "valleys" built with stone walls on the steep slopes of the mountain, and today, all that remains are the stone walls and stairs of the "valleys" that have lost their lodgings, deep in the mountains of Hiko-san. In one of these valleys is "Senzobo", where the legend of garden design by Sesshu remains. The location is not open to the public and cannot be visited by the general public, but the remains of the garden remain, so we will post photos.

◼︎Name: "Senzobo"

◼︎Address: Hiko-san, Soeda-cho, Tagawa-gun, Fukuoka Prefecture

◼︎TEL: None

◼︎Access: Not open to the public due to the risk of getting lost deep in the mountains.