Category:Gohyaku Rakan-ji (Koto, Tokyo)

Gohyaku Rakan-ji The Five Hundred Arhat Temple 五百羅漢寺 was a temple in the Honjo area of Edo, in what is now Kōtō-ku, Tokyo. It was famous for its Sazai Hall (Sazaidō), which allowed for views of Edo, the Kantō Plain and Mount Fuji. It was destroyed in the 1855 Edo earthquake and never rebuilt. For more information, see the Curator's Comments section of this British Museum web page describing a copy of the print Turban Shell Hall of the Five Hundred Arhat Temple by Hokusai. There is a paper by Timon Screech titled The Strangest Place in Edo. The Temple of the Five Hundred Arhats with much more about this temple. For those with access to papers stored in the Jstore database, the paper can be downloaded from the Jstore web site.