Buddhist temple
Minobu Betsuin
身延別院（みのぶべついん）
Chūō, Tokyo
A Nichiren-school temple in Nihonbashi Kodenma-chō, enshrining a sacred statue of Nichiren Shōnin received from Minobusan as Ganman Soshi. It stands on the site of the Denma-chō prison of Edo.
English pages are the site’s own translations of its Japanese pages. The sources cited are in Japanese. 日本語で読む
Prayers associated with this place
Sacred statue enshrined: Ganman Kōso Nichiren Daibosatsu (Ganman Soshi)
History and things to know
According to temple tradition, the priest Arai Nissatsu, 73rd abbot of Minobusan Kuon-ji, and others resolved to open a place of Lotus practice on the site of the prison to console the people who had died in prison; they built a founder's hall in Meiji 15 and opened it the following year, Meiji 16. The halls burned in the Great Kantō Earthquake, but the sacred statue escaped harm, and the temple was rebuilt in Shōwa 4.
Introduced by this site, based on materials from the shrine or temple and public bodies.
Before you visit
This is a temple in Nihonbashi Kodenma-chō, Tokyo, separate from Minobusan Kuon-ji in Yamanashi Prefecture.
Official website of the shrine or temple (may be in Japanese)
Sources (in Japanese)
- 身延別院「御祭神・御本尊・由緒の公式案内」（2026-10-22 確認）
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