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Sounji in Hakone: Mausoleum of the Hojo Five Generations
Sounji in Hakone, founded in 1521, is the mausoleum of the Hojo Five Generations (Soun, Ujitsuna, Ujiyasu, Ujimasa, Ujinao). A Rinzai Zen temple of the Daitokuji line where 100 years of warring-states history sleep beneath stone pagodas.
Sounji in Hakone, founded in 1521 on the deathbed wishes of Hojo Soun, is the mausoleum of the Hojo Five Generations (Soun, Ujitsuna, Ujiyasu, Ujimasa, Ujinao) — rulers of eastern Japan for a century. A Rinzai Zen temple of the Daitokuji line, its founding abbot was Iten Sosei, the 83rd patriarch of Daitokuji in Kyoto. The temple was burned during Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s 1590 siege of Odawara (Hideyoshi himself camped here before moving to Ishigakiyama Castle) but the five stone pagodas of the Hojo lords survived. The renga poet Iio Sogi, friend of Soun, is also buried here.
Last updated: May 2, 2026
Main gate of Sounji in Hakone — Rinzai Zen temple founded 1521
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Tombs of the Hojo Five Generations at Sounji
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Portrait of Hojo Soun (Ise Soun) — founder of the Later Hojo clan
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Weeping cherry at Sounji — blooming above the Hojo tombs in April
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Tomb of renga poet Iio Sogi at Sounji
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