| To commemorate the fact that the land was the first place where Honen propagated Jodo Sect, Emperor Gokomatsu granted the temple an imperial scroll of 'the first gate of Jodo Shinshu' (the True Pure Land Sect of Buddhism). |
法然が最初に浄土宗を布教を行った地であることに因み、後小松天皇から「浄土真宗最初門」の勅額を賜った。 |