A Jodo Buddhist temple in Oiso where the renowned Meiji-Taisho era novelist Shimazaki Toson, author of 'Before the Dawn', is buried. The temple and its cemetery draw literary pilgrims who come to pay respects to one of modern Japan's greatest writers.

Jifukuji Temple is said to have been founded around 1600 (the 5th year of the Keicho era) as a Jodo Buddhist temple. Long rooted in the community of Oiso, it served throughout the Edo period as a center of local faith, offering funerary and memorial rites to residents. From the Meiji era onward, Ois…