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Sōfuku-ji (Nagasaki)

is an Ōbaku Zen temple that was built by the Chinese monk Chaonian in 1629 as the family temple of the Chinese from Fujian Province who settled in Nagasaki.

Sōfuku-ji

could refer to one of four Buddhist temples in Japan:

  • Sōfuku-ji (Fukuoka)
  • Sōfuku-ji (Gifu)
  • Sōfuku-ji (Nagasaki)
Sōfuku-ji (Gifu)

is a Buddhist temple located in Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. The temple has strong ties to both Saitō Dōsan and Oda Nobunaga. Gifu's Sōfuku-ji is famed throughout Japan for both the number of monks it produces and for its "Blood Ceiling". Shortly after its founding, it was also known as Kōsai-ji , but that name is no longer used. It is also one of the Mino Thirty-three Kannon.

Sōfuku-ji (Fukuoka)

is a Rinzai temple in Hakata-ku, Fukuoka, Japan. Its honorary sangō prefix is . The temple was founded by the monk Tan'e in Dazaifu in 1241, but was moved to its present location in 1600 after it became the Kuroda family temple.