Heartfelt welcome to our website.

First and foremost, I would like to express my sincere gratitude for your support and prayers for my serving as chief priest of Kenkohji Zen Temple since 2000.

Our society is undergoing a period of worldwide change, called the” Third Industrial Revolution”.

It is also advancing at a dizzying speed. This has brought large and major changes in people’s lives.

In this kind of society, I have always thought how I should create a temple which can bring joy and

peace for the society, and I have been working for this goal and practice, keeping my devotion in order that my temple can ever meet the needs of society.

In particular, I would like to further devote my efforts to the inheritance and dissemination of Zen culture, which is a distinctive feature of my temple, and to serve hard to promote and maintain Kenkohji Temple and its garden as historical Zen art.

Rt. Rev. MASUNO Shunmyo (DAIYUU Shunmyo)

18th Chief Priest, Kenkohji Zen Temple