Seigan-ji Temple

What it is

• A Seizan Jodo sect temple located on the former villa site of the Fujiwara clan
• Founded in 1529 by Zenkou Shonin with the support of Oda Nobuhide
• The reported birthplace of Minamoto no Yoritomo, the first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate
• Reconstructed by Toyotomi Hideyori after a fire destroyed the original structures in 1600

What to see

• A stone monument marking the specific site where Minamoto no Yoritomo was born
• A reconstructed well used for the first bath of the infant Yoritomo
• The modern concrete main hall built after the original was destroyed in 1945
• Temple gates and halls decorated with the hollyhock crest

Notes written by Japan Gems from facts in Japanese Wikipedia.