A Jodo temple founded in the early Edo period, located in a residential neighborhood near Horikawa-dori in central Kyoto. A nembutsu practice hall that gathered local faith, it was a mid-sized temple with many parishioners in the Edo period. The principal Amida Nyorai standing image is attributed to the Kamakura period. A well-tended small garden with seasonal flowers provides quiet beauty.

Ryosenji is a Jodo-sect Buddhist temple said to have been founded in 1615, corresponding to the first year of the Genna era. This period followed the Battle of Osaka, through which the Tokugawa shogunate consolidated its rule, and many temples were established or reorganized throughout central Kyoto…