Visit Japan Web Fukuji Temple

Visit Japan Web invites you to explore the Fukuji Temple, situated in Chikugo-cho, Nagasaki. It is affiliated with the Huangbo Sect and is located on Fenzishan mountain. Established in 1628, it, along with Chongfukuji Temple and Kofukuji Temple, is collectively referred to as “Nagasaki Sanfukuji Temple”, and together with Shōfukuji Temple, it is known as “Nagasaki Shifukuji Temple”.

The majority of the temple’s followers are overseas Chinese from Zhangzhou and Quanzhou in central Fujian Province, thus earning it the name “Zhangzhou Temple” or “Quanzhou Temple”. The main temple building was a national treasure of Japan beefore World War II. But it was completely destroyed after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki City.

The Ten Thousand Kingdoms Temple Nagasaki Kannon was constructed in 1979. It  features a turtle-shaped spiritual temple as its base. It houses an 18-meter-tall Guanyin statue weighing 35 tons. There’s a Foucault pendulum depicting the rotation of the Earth inside it.

Within the cemeteries behind the Fukusaiji Temple, the tombs of Tozaemon Eogawa, a great minister of the Tang Dynasty, and Kakukai, the temple’s founder, along with other Chinese monks, are designated as cultural properties by Saki City. The temple also enshrines a huge steel helmet made from the battleship Mutsu’s main gun armor, which sank during World War II.

The Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture houses the restored model of the temple before it burned down. It also stores two items that were originally national treasures. There are 2 buildings and cloisters in the main hall of Fukuji Temple and the front hall.

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