If you look carefully around and near Gifu Castle Park, there is a hidden gem people do not know about. Modern day Myoshoji is across the street from Jozaiji. Oda Hidenobu donated the temple area. Here is the kicker, during the time of Oda Nobunaga the area was known to house Takenaka Hanbei. This was during Nobunaga's rule in Gifu. A nice find indeed.
Tenka no tame!
The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga (p. 243)
"On the 28th of the Tenth Month, Nobunaga invited seventeen connoisseurs from Kyoto and Sakai and gave them tea at the Myokakuji.
Item: below was placed a copper waste jar with a tapered bottom; the tea kettle Otogoze. Tea from the tea jar Matsushima.
Item: the master of the tea ceremony was Soeki; it was an occasion that all would remember gratefully for the rest of their lives."
As for myself, I felt the presence of Nobunaga and Sen no Rikyu when I drank the tea at Myokakuji. It was a rare experience."
Nobunaga no tame!
This is a short post on Nobunaga's younger brother Nobuyuki turning Ryusenji into a fort.
The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga (p. 93)
"The younger brother of Lord Kazusa no Suke Nobunaga, Lord Kanjuro, built up the Ryusenji, turning that temple into a fort."
Tenka no tame!
Nobunaga no tame!
