Anraku-ji's principal image is Yakushi Nyorai, the Medicine Buddha, placing healing at the center of the temple's identity.

The temple's founder studied Zen in Song China and returned to Japan in 1246 on the same ship as Lanxi Daolong, the famous priest who established Kamakura's Kencho-ji temple.

This Anraku-ji is in Tokushima and identified as the 6th temple of the Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage, one of Japan's best-known pilgrimage routes.

Two remarkably realistic wooden statues of priests from 1329 sit in the temple, crafted by a carpenter named Hyobu. They show an unusual level of detail compared to later sculptures of that era.