Built in 1450 the temple’s main attraction is a Zen garden in the kare-san-sui style from the mid-15th century. The garden consists of an area (25 by 10 metres) of fine-grained gravel with 15 seemingly randomly placed stones in 5 mossy groups. Since 1994, it has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage. The temple belongs to the largest school of Rinzai Zen with the mother temple Myōshin-ji. The temple complex also includes a large pond, which dates back to the very first temple foundation on this site in the 10th century. In the middle of the pond is a small walk-in island with a shrine dedicated to the deity Benzaiten.
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