This Nichiren sect temple is located on the north bank of the Shorenji River, where the Nakatsu River flows into. It began in 1625 when Shoren Nichibo built a small hermitage. It once had seven halls and was one of Osaka's 25 temples, but was destroyed by fire and earthquakes. The current main hall dates to 1874. Every year on August 26th, the Kawasegaki (river-segaki) ceremony is held, during which five-colored streamers and flags bearing the daimoku (mantra) are erected. A fleet of boats carrying a portable shrine containing a statue of Saint Nichiren and numerous wooden scrolls proceeds from the Denpo Water Gate to the Yodo River, and participants float the wooden scrolls down the river while a priest chants sutras. This is a Buddhist ceremony in which people offer food and drink to the spirits, both related and unrelated, who are suffering from hunger and thirst in the realm of hungry ghosts, and pray for the success of their own Buddhist training. It began in 1721 and is one of Japan's three major Segaki rituals, designated as an intangible folk cultural asset by Osaka City.