Gansho-in Temple, a Soto Zen temple in Obuse-machi, famous for the ceiling painting "Happo-nirami Hoou-zu" (Eight-Direction Glaring Phoenix) painted by Katsushika Hokusai in his later years. The 21-tatami phoenix painting, into which the nearly 90-year-old Hokusai poured his full strength, is a late masterpiece said to make eye contact with the viewer no matter where they stand. The temple grounds…
Gansho-in Temple was founded in the Kansho era (1461-1466) as a Soto Zen temple. During the Sengoku period it gathered the reverence of wealthy farmers and merchants in Obuse, and after the death of Fukushima Masanori (1561-1624) — a warlord who served Toyotomi Hideyoshi and governed Shinano and Ech…
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