A Shingon temple founded in 951 by the monk Kuya, who personally carved an Eleven-faced Kannon image to ward off an epidemic in Kyoto.

An old temple in Rokuhara, the base of Taira no Kiyomori and his clan. It preserves a seated statue said to depict Kiyomori, keeping alive the memory of the Taira at the height of their glory.

The Higashiyama Rokuhara district, where Rokuharamitsuji stands, was the political heart of the Taira clan's power in the late Heian period, densely packed with their residences. Taira no Shigemori (1138-1179), Kiyomori's eldest son, maintained his residence here at Rokuhara and served as Junior Second Rank Inner Minister and Commander of the Left Imperial Guard — effectively the Taira regime's second-in-command. When Kiyomori staged his coup in 1179 placing Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa under house arrest, Shigemori reportedly opposed his father's high-handedness but could not stop him; the spiritual anguish is said to have hastened his death. He passed away that same July at age 42, predeceasing his father. The seated wooden statue of Kiyomori in the treasury was made for his father, but Rokuharamitsuji remains a sacred site preserving the faith and the rise and fall of the Taira clan.