| @The priest Ikkyu lived here temporarily
in the last years of his life .He was
said
to be a son of the Emperor Gokomatsu
, who
was quite free, easy in nature and
a man
of unyielding spirit , and moved from
place
to place in Kyoto, Nara, Sakai and
so on.
He moved from Nara to Sakai and lived
at
Sumiyoshi in the first year of Bunmei
(1469).
In the following year , the big merchant
Owa Sorin , who supported the reconstruction
of the Daitokuji temple , invited him
to
live in Owa's newly build hermitage
here
. He called it the Unmonan hermitage
and
lived here with his disciples and he
founded
a hermitage named Syosaian in the ground
of the Unmon a few years later . He
lived
here for around eight years and moved
from
here to the Shuonan hermitage in Tanabe
Kyoto
. The vestige of the trace of its gate
and
a bamboo thicket around here had reminded
us of its appearance before the first
years
of the Meiji era . |
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