The garden is also the site of the Hosokawabyo hall, where a wooden sitting statue of Hosokawa Katsumoto, a high-ranking official of the Muromachi Shogunate, and a Buddhist “ihai” memorial ...

The temple is the headquarters of the Shokokuji school of the Rinzai sect of Buddhism, which was founded by Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358-1408), the third shogun of the Muromachi Shogunate.