Jodo-in Temple (Yutakusan Chakuren-ji)

Founded by Shuin as a retirement retreat for the Tendai School Hanju-in temple. The principal image venerated in the Main Hall is a lacquered and gilded wooden statue of the Amitabha Tathagata (Important Cultural Property) that was carved in 1096 by the priest Jakuno.
During the Grand Kitano Tea Ceremony of 1587, Toyotomi Hideyoshi stopped by here and asked the resident priestess for some tea. As he had asked for a second cup, the priestess felt it would be insulting to continue to offer the great lord her clumsy attempts at whisking tea, so instead she provided Hideyoshi with hot water from the Silver Spring within the temple grounds. Hideyoshi, understanding why the priestess was doing this, is said to have laughed, saying “I ask for tea and you bring me hot water—give me some tea.” Ever since, the temple has been known as Yutakusan Chakuren-ji, or “Much Hot Water, No Tea Served Temple.”
The roof of the Main Hall features pottery images of the reclusive Chinese Tang dynasty poets Hanshan and Shide created by Chojiro, the first Raku-ware potter, in the Azuchi-Momoyama period.
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