Kimiidera, the second temple of the Saigoku Thirty-Three Kannon Pilgrimage, is said to have been deeply revered by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the early modern era. Afterward, during the Edo period, its halls were maintained under the patronage of the Kishu Tokugawa clan. This ancient temple, also visited by Saicho and Kukai, remains one of western Japan's foremost Kannon pilgrimage sites today.