Zenpuku-ji

History

Features

• There is a monument to Townsend Harris and the First American Legation in Tokyo.
• A 750-year-old ginkgo tree at the entry to the cemetery, purportedly planted by Shinran and called "the upside down tree", is a registered National Natural Monument
• A well in the approach to the shrine is supposed to have been struck by Kukai's bishop's staff. This well served the community during the Great Kantō earthquake and the Great Tokyo Air Raid.

  People Associated with Zenpukuji

• Henry Heusken, attacked by rōnin at Nakanohashi on January 14, 1861, was brought back to Zenpukuji to die. The funeral procession from there to nearby Korinji was a critical confrontation between the bakufu and the foreign legations.
• Masuda Takashi, founder of Mitsui, served as an interpreter there at the age of 14.

  Notable interments

• Fukuzawa Yukichi, founder of Keio University