According to the annual table of Muso-kokushi, in showa 2 (AC 1313) he came to the Totomi province from the Jogo-ji temle, along with his six or seven follow-practitioners, such as Hongen Gen-o' Kokumon Funi, So-yo and so on, and finally reached Mt. Nagase whose solitary scenery attracted him a great deal. It is said that he built a hermitage here and called it Kokei (Ancient Valley) against the intention of his master Kennichi Koho to make him the chief monke of the Choraku-ji temple in the Kozuke province.
But according to the history book of Toki city, unlike the above annual table, Musokokushi is the second chief monk of the Jorin-ji temple whose lay founder is Yorizane Toki, lord of the Toki district, and invited found is Sogen Mugaku, and the first monk founder is Kennichi Koho. Consequently, the Kokei-an is considered to have been built as an annex hermitage of the Jorin-ji temple and the six or seven fellow-practitioners of Mushokokushi came to help this kokushi with his managing the hermitage.
Here Muso-kokushi applied himself to the “long strict practice after enlightement”, while Hongen Gen-o and Myogen Jusan were engaged in the temple affairs of the Jorin-ji temple. Especially the former, invited by Yorisaa Toki before the annual table of Muso-kokushi, accepted the bones of the predecessor Mitsusada Toki and performed a memorial service at the 33rd anniversary of his death. Furthermore, he built another annex hermitage named Fuso-an where the image of the founder Sogen Mugaku was located and his bones were dedicated. This memorial service was performed in Showa 1 (1312) and the next year but one the Kannon temple of the Kokeian was built.
About the situation of defence of the then Toki clan, Sanrei Shigemori, a researcher of “the gardening when the Toki clan was in the mansion” and garden of the Eiho-ji temple, says: “with the Tki market as a center, they built the Fukazawa castle in the norh-western part and the Tsuruga castl in the northern, Mt. Kamado commanding the Ena district. In the front place of the south there was there was the Mashiko castle ; in the west there were the positions of strategic importance, Such as Otomi, Asano, Takada and Tajimi. “(Cf.
Toivorikaneko, p. 118).” This shows that there was no record that the Toki clan had the mansion on Mt. Nagase.
In the
Buttoku-zenii-goroku by Hongen Gen-o there is a passage entitled “casual work on Mt. Kokei”: the surface of a mirror opehs newly and the water of a pond is clear...” This means that Muso-kokushi built a garden then in such a spiritual realm.
The Summury of the Garden of the Eiho-ji Temple
The subject of this garden srows the long strict practice after enlightenment...... the fundamental thought of Rinzai Zen based on the
Rinzai-roku... by Muso-kokushi, founder of the Kokei-an ; the conception of it shows the thorough realization of true Self through zazen stemming from the
Rozanki (A Guide of Lu-Shan); the structure expresses the realm of the original enlightenment based on the
Shodo-ka (The Song of Enlightenment) by Yokadaishi. This is the garden of the Rinzai Zen monastery where we walk about trees and springs.
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