taiko-zan

Updated: August 12, 2026

This temple is known as Taiko-zan "Taiko" having been the title of Hideyoshi in the latter years of his life and in the grounds of the temple may be seen the well from which water was drawn to wash the newly born baby. The child grew up to be a youth of dimunitive stature, monkey-like face, extraordinary precocity, and boundless ambition.

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