Yogenin was founded in 1594 by Yodogimi, concubine of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, as a memorial for her father Azai Nagamasa on the twenty-first anniversary of his death. The corridor ceilings are famous as "blood ceilings" preserving the bloodstains of Torii Mototada and his troops who died by their own hand at the fall of Fushimi Castle, bearing witness to the tragedies of the Sengoku period. The fusuma…

Yogenin was founded in 1594 by Yodogimi, concubine of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, as a memorial temple of the Jodo Shinshu Kenkoiin branch to honor her father Azai Nagamasa on the twenty-first anniversary of his death. The temple is said to have flourished under Hideyoshi's patronage following its establish…