Ryūsenji (瀧 泉 寺) also known as Meguro Fudo (目 黒 不 動, "Black-eyed Fudo") is a tendai-buddhist temple in Meguro, Tokyo, Japan.
The name of the surrounding district "Meguro" derives from the black-eyed statue of Ryūsenji by Meguro Fudō (Black-eyed Fudō-myōō, one of five protective Fudō-myōō statues, located at strategic points on the outskirts of Edo, the new capital of the Tokugawa shogunate, erected in the early seventeenth century by Abbot Tenkai, adviser to Tokugawa Ieyasu, each statue had eyes of a different color.
Ryūsenji is known as the burial place of the romantic couple Hirai Gonpachi (平井 権 八) and Komurasaki (小 紫), whose story has appeared in numerous Kabuki games and in A.B. Mitford's Tales of Old Japan was told.
The temple flourished during the Edo period, when Meguro was a popular pilgrimage site on the edge of Edo.
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