jisho-ji

Updated: May 14, 2025

In the halls of the Jisho-ji monastery, constructed on a grand scale as his retreat in old age, he collected chefs d'oeuvre of China and Japan, so that the district Higashi-yama where the building stood became to all ages a synonym for choice specimens, and there, too, he instituted the tea ceremonial whose votaries were thenceforth recognized as the nation's arbitri elegantiarum.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era