Kansetsu HASHIMOTO, a Japanese-style painter who did not want to allow the teahouse to fall into decay, bought it as his own second residence in 1914, and later it became the temple as we know it today.
このまま朽ちるのを惜しんだ日本画家の橋本関雪が、大正3年（1914年）自らの別邸として購入し、後今のような寺院となる。