ShÅfuku-ji (Fukuoka)
The Shofuku -ji (Japanese圣 福寺) is a Buddhist Zen Temple in the district of Hakata -ku Fukuoka city of Japan.
It was built in 1195 under the guidance of the Rinzai monk Eisai and with the financial support of Minamoto no Yoritomo. He is thus the oldest extant Zen temple in Japan. A panel of Go- Toba tennō the temple has the inscription: " This is the first Zen temple in Japan". However, the first Zen temple may have been the also built by Eisai in 1191 Hoon -ji.
Other cultural artifacts owned by the Shofuku -ji are the personal property of Eisai and Sengai, as well as a bronze bell from the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo.