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Kamakura’s Eisho-ji Temple

Flowers & bamboo at 380 years old nunnery

Eisho-ji Temple has been a nunnery since it was established in 1636. The founder of this temple was a woman who once was Tokugawa Ieyasu’s concubine, and also a descendant of a samurai who first built the Edo Castle. The temple’s name was derived from her name, Eisho-in. There are lots of flowers, trees, and a bamboo forest inside the temple grounds. The rendition of the temple crest at the gate is of a floral design - quite appropriate for a nunnery!

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