A Soto Zen temple in Kofu City, Yamanashi Prefecture, known as the burial place of Takeda Nobutora, forefather of the Takeda clan (and Shingen's father). Nobutora was exiled to Suruga by his son Shingen, later traveled to Kyoto, and eventually returned to Kai in his old age, dying at 81. His tomb remains on the temple grounds, conveying the complex family history of the Takeda and the power strugg…

Daizenji Temple was founded in 1521 (Daiei 1) by Takeda Nobutora, the warlord who unified Kai Province and laid the foundations of the Takeda clan, who is said to have established it as his personal bodai-ji (mortuary temple). In 1541 (Tenbun 10), Nobutora suffered an extraordinary fate when he was …