Sōken-in

It was founded by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1582 as the mortuary temple of Oda Nobunaga.

Hideyoshi granted the temple three hundred koku and staged his celebrated Daitoku-ji tea gathering on its grounds in 1585.

During the early years of the Meiji period its precinct was demolished and its treasures relocated; Sōken-in was revived in 1926.

[1] The seated wooden statue of Oda Nobunaga of 1583, lacquered, with inlaid eyes and an inscription on the base, an Important Cultural Property, was returned in 1961.

[1][2] Nobunaga's funeral and Hideyoshi's foundation of the sub-temple 'with the very best wood available, a remarkable thing to see' was recounted by the Portuguese missionary Luís Fróis in his contemporary História de Japam.