Tōfuku-ji, Kyoto, Japan

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Tōfuku-ji is a Buddhist temple in Higashiyama-ku in Kyoto, Japan. Tōfuku-ji takes its name from two temples in Nara, Tōdai-ji and Kōfuku-ji. It is one of the so-called Kyoto Gozan or "five great Zen temples of Kyoto". Its honorary sangō prefix is Enichi-san.

  It was found in 1236CE by imperial chancellor Kujō Michiie, for the sake of his family prestige, wanted to build a major temple to rival the great temples of Nara: Todaiji and Kofukuji. 

Like most temples in Kyoto, Tōfuku-ji has been ravaged by fire numerous times, and none of its many buildings survive from Kujō's era. The oldest extant structure is the main gate, or Sammon (三門), dating from 1425. Considered a National Treasure, the gate was dismantled in 1969 by the Ministry of Culture and reassembled nine years later after a thorough restoration. Other surviving buildings from the early Muromachi period include the Zendō (meditation hall), Tōsu (toilet), and Yokushitsu (bath house).