Tengen-ji, Buddhist temple in Taitō district, Japan

Tengen-ji is a Buddhist temple in Taitō ward featuring traditional Japanese architectural structures and religious statues throughout its grounds. The property includes multiple garden areas where statues of Amitabha Buddha and Kannon stand among trees and stone arrangements.

Tengen-ji is a Rinzai-shu Myoshin-ji school temple in Yanaka, Taito-ku, and the family temple of the Matsudaira clan of the Oshi domain in Musashi province. The graves of Matsudaira Tadaaki and Matsudaira Tadaaki (Tokugawa branch) are on the grounds, along with that of Confucian scholar Ota Shudai, a Tokyo metropolitan historic site.

Tengen-ji belongs to the Rinzai school, Myōshin-ji branch, not Tendai. It serves as the family temple (bodaiji) of the Matsudaira clan of the Oshi domain in Musashi Province, and the graves of Matsudaira Tadaaki and Matsudaira Tadaaki (Tadateru) lie in its cemetery, alongside that of the Confucian scholar Ōta Shundai, a Tokyo metropolitan historic site.

The temple is a two-minute walk from Nezu Station on the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line. The grounds are compact and explored on foot, with the cemetery area containing the graves of the Matsudaira family and the Confucian scholar Dazai Shundai.

Tengen-ji holds the graves of the Oshi domain Matsudaira family, including Matsudaira Tadaaki and Matsudaira Tadaakira, and of the Confucian scholar Ota Shudai, whose tomb is a Tokyo Metropolitan Historic Site. The temple serves as the family temple of the Matsudaira of Oshi, Musashi Province.