Tentokuin is a Rinzai Zen temple built in 1626 as the mortuary temple of Princess Tama (Tentokuin), the principal wife of Maeda Toshinaga, third lord of the Kaga domain. Princess Tama was the second daughter of shogun Tokugawa Hidetada; she married Toshinaga at age three and died young at twenty-four, and is remembered today as a symbol of the bond between the Maeda and Tokugawa clans. Her mausole…

Founded in 1626 by Maeda Toshinaga, third lord of the Kaga domain, to mourn his principal wife Princess Tama, who was the second daughter of shogun Tokugawa Hidetada and a symbol of the political marriage between the Maeda and Tokugawa clans under the shogunate system. The mausoleum is renowned for …