It is said that this temple was founded
by Shotokutaishi (574-622) and at that time
the temple was only dedicated to a kannon.
Akamtsu Mitsusuke (1381-1441) killed the
shogunate Ashikaga Yoshinori (1394-1441)
in the 1st year of Kakitsu (1441) and when
he was on the run he buried the shogunate
in the neighborhood of the temple. So the
next shogunate Ashikaga Yoshikatsu (1443)
built cathedrals here and founded the temple
named Sozenji to let him rest in peace.
The temple has an earth mound of the shogunate
Yoshinori's neck, Hosokawa Garacia's grave,
the brothers' Enjo's grave.
The garden for tea ceremony which
was reconstructed
after World War II is rare, which is
planted
with tea trees. |
