Sagami-ji (???, or Sagami-dera), is a Shingon Buddhist temple in Kasai, Hy?go Prefecture, Japan. Its mountain name (sang?) is Senj?san (???). Emperor Sh?mu ordered its construction in 745 (the 17th year of the Tenpy? era) at the request of Gy?ki, a Buddhist priest.
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According to the temple records, the priest Gy?ki received an oracle from a shrine, Sagami My?jin (????), instructing a temple to be built on these grounds. Gy?ki took the request to Emperor Sh?mu, who then ordered the construction of Sagami-ji. When finished in 745, it was named Sagami after the oracle's origins.
Inscriptions on temple plaques record later visits from various emperors and sh?guns, including sh?gun Tokugawa Ieyasu.
The building was badly damaged in the Heiji Rebellion of 1159, and later rebuilt. The main temple was burnt down in conflicts during 1578, and was not rebuilt until the daimy? of Himeji, Honda Tadamasa, agreed to aid the Ikeda clan in its reconstruction.
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