Kokutai-ji

Kokutai-ji
Zendo at Kokutai-ji
Religion
Affiliation	Rinzai
Location
Location	184 Ota, Takaoka-shi, Toyama-ken, 933-0133
Country	Toyama, Japan
Architecture
Founder	Jiun Myoi (a.k.a. Seisen Zenji)
Completed	1300

Kokutai-ji (国泰寺, "Temple of National Peace"), originally Tosho-ji (東松寺), is one of fourteen autonomous branches of the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen, founded in 1300 by the monk Jiun Myoi in Toyama, Japan. In 1327 Emperor Go-Daigo gave the temple the name Kokutai-ji, and Jiun Myoi became Seisen Zenji.^[1]

Kokutai-ji was once also a temple of the Fuke sect (as many Rinzai monasteries in Japan once were), and housed komusō. Rinzai monks and priests still dress and practice suizen as komusō during memorial ceremonies in remembrance of Jiun Myoi.