Kan'ei-ji

Tōeizan Kan'ei-ji Endon-in
Kan'ei-ji's original five-storied pagoda in Ueno
Basic information
Location	Uenosakuragi 1-14-11, Taito-ku, Tokyo
Affiliation	Tendai
Country	Japan
Website	www.kaneiji.jp (Japanese)
Architectural description
Founder	Tenkai, Tokugawa Iemitsu
Completed	1625

Tōeizan Kan'ei-ji Endon-in (東叡山寛永寺円頓院^?) (also spelled Kan'eiji or Kaneiji) is a Tendai Buddhist temple in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1625 during the Kan'ei era by Tenkai, in an attempt to emulate the powerful religious center Enryaku-ji, in Kyoto. The main object of worship is Yakushirurikō Nyorai (薬師瑠璃光如来^?).

It was named in a reference both to the Enryaku-ji's location atop Mount Hiei (Tōeizan means "Mount Heiei of the East"), and also after the era during which it was erected, like Enryaku-ji (named after the Enryaku year period). Because it was one of the two Tokugawa bodaiji (funeral temple; the other was Zōjō-ji) and because it was destroyed in the closing days of the war that put an end to the Tokugawa shogunate, it is inextricably linked to the Tokugawa shoguns.

Once a great complex, it used to occupy the entire heights north and east of Shinobazu Pond and the plains where Ueno Station now stands. It had immense wealth, power and prestige, and it once consisted of over 30 buildings. Of the 15 Tokugawa shōguns, six are buried here.