Daijoji, formally known as Ryukokuzan Daijoji, is a distinguished Soto Zen temple in Kanazawa founded in the Kamakura period by Tettsuu Gikai, a dharma-grandson of Dogen. It is particularly renowned for its sliding-door paintings by Maruyama Okyo and Nagasawa Rosetsu — Important Cultural Properties — which remain in the main hall, bringing together Okyo's delicate realism and Rosetsu's bold brushw…

Founded in 1282 in Noto Province by Tettsuu Gikai, the temple was later relocated to Kanazawa. As a Zen temple in the direct lineage of Dogen, it received the deep protection of the Maeda lords of the Kaga domain and flourished as the clan's mortuary temple. In the late 18th century, the sliding-doo…