Shōkoku-ji (相国寺), formally identified as Mannen-zan Shōkoku Shōten Zenji (萬年山相國承天禅寺), is a Buddhist temple in northern Kyoto, first founded in 1382 by Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, with the existing temple complex having undergone several periods of extensive reconstruction and rebuilding in the succeeding eras. | ||||||
Affiliation: Shōkoku-ji Rinzai | ||||||
Location: 701 Shōkokuji Monzen-chō, East of Karasuma and Imadegawa Street, Kamigyō-ku, Kyōto, Kyoto Prefecture | ||||||