Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Kyoto, Japan

Kohōan is a Rinzai Zen temple located in the Kurama area of Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. It is a sub-temple of the Daitoku-ji, the head temple of the Daitoku-ji branch of Rinzai Zen. It is situated at the western edge of the Daitoku-ji precincts, away from the other sub-temples. The name "Kohō" means "a single thatched boat" and was given to it by Shun'ya Sōen, whom Kobori Masakazu (Enshū) studied under. Although it is not open to the public, there are special openings for about ten days every few years.

Wikipedia: 孤篷庵 (JA)

Daikoin is a Rinzai sect temple located in Daidokujicho, Kuramae, Kyoto City. It is a sub-temple of the main temple Daitokuji. The principal image is Shakyamuni Buddha.

Wikipedia: 大光院 (京都市) (JA)

Ryōkoin is a temple of the Rinzai sect located in Murasakino, Kita-ku, Kyoto, Japan. It is the head of the Rinzai sect Daitokuji sect Daihonzan Daitokuji Temple. Although it has many buildings and works of art that are national treasures and important cultural properties, it is a temple that is closed to the public, does not accept any visits for sightseeing purposes, and does not hold any special exhibitions.

Wikipedia: 龍光院 (京都市北区) (JA)

Gyokurin-in is a temple of the Rinzai sect located in Murasakino, Kita-ku, Kyoto, Japan. It is the head of the Rinzai sect Daihonzan Daitokuji Temple. It is not usually open to the public.

Wikipedia: 玉林院 (JA)

Kōtō-in (高桐院) is a sub-temple of Daitoku-ji, Kyoto, Japan. It was founded by Hosokawa Tadaoki. There is a teahouse, the Shōkō-ken, and the gardens are celebrated for their momiji. A pair of Southern Song monochrome hanging scrolls with landscape have been designated a National Treasure. Many other works are aired annually in October.

Wikipedia: Kōtō-in (EN)

Sōken-in (総見院) is a sub-temple of Daitoku-ji, Kyoto, Japan. It was founded by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1582 as the mortuary temple of Oda Nobunaga. Hideyoshi granted the temple three hundred koku and staged his celebrated Daitoku-ji tea gathering on its grounds in 1585. During the early years of the Meiji period its precinct was demolished and its treasures relocated; Sōken-in was revived in 1926. The seated wooden statue of Oda Nobunaga of 1583, lacquered, with inlaid eyes and an inscription on the base, an Important Cultural Property, was returned in 1961. Nobunaga's funeral and Hideyoshi's foundation of the sub-temple 'with the very best wood available, a remarkable thing to see' was recounted by the Portuguese missionary Luís Fróis in his contemporary História de Japam.

Wikipedia: Sōken-in (EN)

The Daisen-in (大仙院) is a sub-temple of Daitoku-ji, a temple of the Rinzai school of Zen in Buddhism, one of the five most important Zen temples of Kyoto. The name means "The Academy of the Great Immortals." Daisen-in was founded by the Zen priest Kogaku Sōkō , and was built between 1509 and 1513. The Daisen-in is noted for its screen paintings and for its kare-sansui, or dry landscape garden.

Wikipedia: Daisen-in (EN)

Hoshun-in is a temple of the Rinzai sect, Daitoku-ji branch, located in the Kurama area of Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. It is one of the sub-temples of the main temple Daitoku-ji and is situated the furthest north among the sub-temples of Daitoku-ji. It is usually not open to the public.

Wikipedia: 芳春院 (京都市) (JA)

Jukō-in (聚光院) is a sub-temple of Daitoku-ji, Kyoto, Japan. It was founded in 1566 as the mortuary temple of Miyoshi Nagayoshi. In 1589 Sen no Rikyū designated it as the mortuary temple for his family. The Hondō (1583) and chashitsu (1739) are Important Cultural Properties and the gardens have been designated a Place of Scenic Beauty. A painting of Miyoshi Nagayoshi (1566) has also been designated an Important Cultural Property. The temple also contains a great number of fusuma paintings done by Kanō Eitoku.

Wikipedia: Jukō-in (EN)

Korin-in is a temple of the Rinzai sect located in Daidokutokuji-cho, Kuramae, Kita-ku, Kyoto. It is a sub-temple of the main temple Daitoku-ji. The principal image is Shakyamuni Buddha. It is not open to the public except on special viewing days.

Wikipedia: 興臨院 (JA)

Zuihoin is a temple of the Daitokuji sect of the Rinzai sect located in Murasakino Daitokuji-cho, Kita-ku, Kyoto. The head of the tower of Daitokuji Temple. The name of the mountain is Longpao Mountain. The main Buddha is Guanyin Bodhisattva. There is a grave of Mr. and Mrs. Otomo Yoshizhen in the temple grounds.

Wikipedia: 瑞峯院 (JA)

Ryōgen-in (龍源院) is a subtemple of the Daitoku-ji Buddhist complex, located in Kita-ku, Kyoto, Japan. It was constructed in 1502.

Wikipedia: Ryōgen-in (EN)

Ōbai-in (黄梅院) is an autonomous sub-temple of Daitoku-ji, Kyoto, Japan, the headquarters of the Daitoku-ji school of the Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism. The Hondō (1586) and Kuri (1589) have been designated Important Cultural Properties. Momoyama period monochrome fusuma paintings of Seven hermits in a bamboo grove, Landscape with figures, and Geese, by Unkoku Tōgan (1588), have also been designated Important Cultural Properties. The severed head of the statue of Sen no Rikyū, its position fatally regarded as hubristic by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, was once kept at Obai-in.

Wikipedia: Ōbai-in (EN)

Daitoku-ji is a Buddhist temple, one of fourteen autonomous branches of the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen. It is located in Kita-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The "mountain name" (sangō) by which it is known is Ryūhōzan (龍宝山). The Daitoku-ji temple complex today covers more than 23 hectares.

Wikipedia: Daitoku-ji (EN)

Shinjuan is the head of the Rinzai sect Daihonzan Daitokuji Temple in Murasakino, Kita-ku, Kyoto, Japan. It is a temple related to Ikkyu Sojun, who is famous as an unconventional Zen monk. It is usually closed to the public, except during special public occasions.

Wikipedia: 真珠庵 (JA)