Korin-in Temple was founded between 1521 and 1528 by Yoshifusa HATAKEYAMA of Noto Province who named Butchi Daitsu Zenji as founding priest, following which it served as an ancestral temple of the Hatakeyama family.
大永年間（1521年～1528年）に能登の畠山義総が仏智大通禅師を開祖として建立、以来畠山家菩提寺となる。