An ancient Rinzai Zen temple founded in 1362 by Hosokawa Yoriyuki, a senior retainer of the Ashikaga, located at the quiet foot of the hills in Nirayama. After Hojo Soun (Ise Shinkuro) seized Izu, he held this temple in deep reverence and worked to maintain and protect it. The temple served as a spiritual foundation for Soun\'s rule of Izu based at Nirayama, and has deep ties with the Later Hojo c…

Kokokuji Temple was founded in 1362 by Hosokawa Yoriyuki, a kanrei (deputy shogun) of the Muromachi Shogunate, under the patronage of the Ashikaga clan. Established as a Rinzai Zen temple at the foot of the hills in Nirayama, it gathered regional devotion throughout the medieval period. In the late …