The hermit Hodo, who came from Tenjiku (present-day India), performed the Hibachi ritual here, and its miraculous powers reached the then Emperor Tenji. As a result, Shizutani-in Chofukuji Temple was founded in the 9th year of Emperor Tenji's reign (670) by imperial order. The mountain where the bowl used in the Hibachi ritual performed by the hermit Hodo is kept is called Hachizukayama, and the place name Hachigamine is derived from this. The temple's name "Hodoji" comes from the fact that the eldest son of the eighth Tokugawa Shogun, Yoshimune (later the ninth Shogun, Ieshige), was named Nagatomimaru, and the temple was renamed Hodoji to avoid sharing the same name. The dining hall from the Kamakura period is simply built, and is one of only two such examples in Osaka Prefecture. The pagoda from the Northern and Southern Courts period has an upper floor in a Chinese style and a lower floor in a Japanese style, and the upper part has a carved wooden frame called a shothijiki, which is said to be the oldest example of this type.