Myoho-in Temple was where seven Kugyo (court nobles) of Sanetomi SANJO's "Sonno joi" (Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians) movement were expelled from Kyoto at the end of the Edo period in an incident known as 'The Seven Nobles of Decline.'
妙法院は、幕末には、三条実美ら尊皇攘夷派の公卿7人が京都から追放された「七卿落ち」の舞台ともなっている。