[2] According to temple tradition, Ekan, a monk from Goguryeo, founded the monastic complex of Hannyadai (般若台) on the site in 629.

Emperor Shōmu is then said to have bestowed upon it, in 735, six hundred volumes of the Daihannyaharamitta-kyō, in gold on indigo paper, along with a sotōba and the name Hannya-ji.

When the fighting continued into the night, Shigehira ordered torches to be lit, and one of his men set fire to a nearby house.

Dated to the second half of the thirteenth century, perhaps to the Bun'ei era, it is unusual in having only one entrance, its narrowness precluding the standard three; a three bay form is adopted in the upper level.

[9] The three-by-two bay kyōzō or repository for sutras, temple chronicles, and the like, dates from the second half of the Kamakura period and is an Important Cultural Property.