The Buddha Hall features a ceiling painting of a dragon that appears to glare at you from every direction you view it, a rare artistic technique called 'happo nirami-no-ryu' (dragon glaring in eight directions).

南宗寺の枯山水庭園は1619年に古田織部が作庭し、国指定名勝となっています。

The temple houses a monument claiming to be the true grave of Tokugawa Ieyasu, based on a legend that he was killed during the 1615 Siege of Osaka and secretly buried here, contradicting official history.

南宗寺は1526年に創建され、1619年に再建されました。室町時代と江戸初期の歴史を今に伝えています。