Daitoku-ji Zuiho-in — Attraction in Kyoto

Zuihou-in is located in Shion, Kita-ku, Kyoto City. It is a temple of Daitoku-ji temple of Rinzai sect, and it is a tower head of Daitoku-ji. There is a tomb of Ootomo Sourin and his wife in the grounds.

The admission fee is 400 yen for adults and 300 yen for elementary and junior high school students. Opening is from 9 am to 17 am. There is no regular holiday. It is not possible to visit in a wheelchair.

The Tenmon year (1532-55), Ototomo Sourin, known as the Christian lord of Kyushu, reopened to Tesshu Soukyu, and it was built as his own Bodhi Temple. There are various theories such as Tenmon 2 (1533), 1535, 1543, and 1546 about the year of founding. The temple issue named Zuihou-in is named after Sourin's legal name "Zuihouin-den Zuihou-Sourin Koji".

The main hall was built at the time of its construction, and is a valuable remains of the Muromachi period. The interior painting is a recent work, but Nozoe Heibei is a masterpiece of Mt. Kumgang of Korea, named after Zuihou's hospital name. In front of the temple is the temple that will be written by Emperor Gonara. The front gate is at the time of foundation. Yokei-an in the tea room is a copy of the 8th head of Omotesenke Sotsutaku-sai taste seat. Tea room Ansho-ken is the taste of The 12th head of Omotesenke Seisai and it is only reverse arrangement teahouse within the grounds of Daitoku-ji Temple. Tea room Heisei-Tai-an is Sen-no Rikyu Myoki-an Tai -an copy tea room, restored in 1990.

The garden consists of three gardens, south, north and west, centered on the square. Both were created by Shigemori Mirei, and were built in 1961 in 400 years of the founder Tesshu Soukyu. Dokuza-tei is a Mt. Horai type garden located in the front of the square, and it depicts a rough wave that strikes Ookarikomi and the peninsula and small island that extends from Mt. It is the naming from the rhetoric of "Dokuza daiouhou (it is one of the things that I am sitting here alone, it is worthy to be honored to be here)", which is the word of the Hakujo Miku Hyakujo. Kanmin-tei is a garden of irrigated water with the thought of Christian Daimyo Ootomo Sourin, and when viewed from the back of a Christian lantern on the east side, seven stone structures form a cross. It is the naming from the slogan "Kanmin kougashite seizan ni taisu (it will be a nap while taking a look at a lush mountain with a pillow)". The roji, located between Hojo and Yokei-an, was a novel tea garden with a standing stone basin near the center, covered with blue stone, without using a leek and a piece of grass. It has been rebuilt in recent years, and it has become a typical tea garden called stepping stone for planting...

Very beautiful, peaceful and quiet place on the premises of the Daitoku-Ji Temple, Zuiho-In is one of the subtemples. It has a beautiful garden which you can best enjoy with a few moments of quiet, and it’s quite possible since there were not many other visitors on the day we visited. Absolutely go to Zuiho-In if you would like see one of the famous stone gardens, but try to avoid Daisen-In (another temple in the Daitoku-Ji) - there are only greedy people trying to sell stuff and a garden the size of...

Temple with two small courtyard gardens. When you enter, you go around clockwise and see the first dry rock and sand garden. The garden has rocks looking like a dragon gradually going down underwater. Then the 2nd garden (again rock, sand, and tree garden)which has a crucifix hidden. The garden was made in early 20th century to commemorate a Daimyo(war load) having converted himself to a Christian in 17th century. Absolutely stunning I love these gardens and tranquility! Highly...