A Soto Zen temple founded in 1590 in the Jingumae area of Shibuya Ward. The principal image is the Juichimen Kannon (Eleven-faced Kannon), and it once served as the family temple of Harajuku village. A hidden place of prayer that sits quietly on a back street while close to Meiji Jingu's Omotesando. The grounds preserve a group of Kyoho-era stone Buddhas, a precious relic conveying the history of …

Zuisho-ji is said to have been founded in 1590, the year of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Odawara Campaign, as a temple of the Soto Zen school. Its principal image is the Juichimen Kannon (Eleven-faced Kannon), and the temple is believed to have long served as the bodaiji, or family temple, of Harajuku villa…