Shoboji Temple is of the Jodo sect and related to the Owari Tokugawa family, the head of the three Tokugawa families. There are two main gardens. The

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Shoboji Temple is of the Jodo sect and related to the Owari Tokugawa family, the head of the three Tokugawa families. There are two main gardens. The dry landscape garden Hondo Teien spreads out in front of the main hall. As one of the landscapes centered on the Karamon gate, which is the so-called “Onarimon”, there are azaleas and cypresses in the white sand. The garden expresses a “sea of clouds” with its pruning and stone arrangement.  And behind the main hall, there is a pond garden that can be viewed from three sides which is designated as a cultural property by Kyoto Prefecture. This garden is presumed to have been created around the middle of the Edo period - water flows down from the waterfall stone arrangement using the foot of the mountain to the front of the pond.

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