Gyotoku-ji (行徳寺) is a Jōdo Shinshū temple located in the Nishiao district of Nanto City, Toyama Prefecture.
In the latter half of the Muromachi period, during the Bunmei (1392–1573), Rennyo(蓮如), the 8th head of Hongan-ji Temple, stayed at Yoshizaki-gobō in Echizen Province, which led to a rapid increase in Shinshū followers in the Hokuriku region, and the spread of Shinshū in earnest in the Gokayama area.
[1][2] The first to extend their teachings to the Gokayama region was Wada Hongaku-ji Temple [ja] in Echizen Province, and there was a monk named Jotoku(浄徳) from Akaodani who was a follower of Hongakuji Temple.
[8] Records of the construction of the Kuri remain, and like other buildings of the same period, it seems to have been done by a carpenter from Himi.
[8] “Kuri”(a kitchen) of this temple using “Gassho-zukuri” architecture was designated as a cultural asset by Nanto City.