Kisshō-ji, Buddhist temple in Hon-Komagome, Japan

Kisshō-ji is a Soto Zen temple at 3-19-17 Hon-Komagome, Bunkyo ward, Tokyo. Its single-storey main hall has a wide green copper roof curving up at the corners, a dark wooden facade with three bays between round red pillars, lattice windows in the side bays and a recessed central doorway. Two stone lions flank the steps to a low stone platform, and a small dark plaque hangs above the pillars. The 1802 mountain gate and 1804 sutra repository survive from the Edo-period seven-hall compound.

Ota Dokan established the site in 1458 after finding a golden seal inscribed with characters meaning good fortune while digging a well for Edo Castle construction. Centuries later, after a devastating fire swept through the area in 1657, many followers moved westward and founded a new settlement they named after this temple.

The temple's name comes from a gold seal inscribed "Kichijō" (good fortune), found in a well near Wadakura during the building of Edo Castle. In the Edo period its precinct held the Sendan-Rin study hall, where over 1,000 monk-students lived; it became Komazawa University in 1925. The graves include that of Enomoto Takeaki, buried here in 1908, and a joint tomb of Yaoya Oshichi and Kichisaburō.

The temple stands at 3-19-17 Hon-Magome, Bunkyo ward, a short walk from Honkomagome Station on the Namboku subway line. The present main hall, guest hall and kitchen buildings are postwar reconstructions; the 1802 mountain gate and 1804 sutra repository survive from the Edo-period compound.

A neighborhood far to the west of here carries the name Kichijoji, borrowed from this temple by settlers who moved there after losing their homes in a 17th-century fire. Though they named their new district after the temple, they never built another one with the same name there.