Sōfuku-ji

Sōfuku-ji - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

is a Buddhist temple located in Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. The temple has strong ties to both Saitō Dōsan and Oda Nobunaga.Gifu Sightseeing Guide: Sōfuku-ji. Gifu Prefecture Tourist Federation. Access June 10, 2008. Gifu's Sōfuku-ji is famed throughout Japan for both the number of monks it produces and for its "Blood Ceiling".Gifu City Walking Map. Gifu Lively City Public Corporation, 2007. Shortly after its founding, it was also known as Kōsai-ji (弘済寺), but that name is no longer used. It is also one of the Mino Thirty-three Kannon. Read more on Wikipedia

type: religious building
date from: 1390
official website: http://www.ccn.aitai.ne.jp/~soufuku/

Source: en.wikipedia.org