Thought to have been built between 1469 and 1487 during the Muromachi period as an imitation of the shoin at Myoshin-ji Temple's Reiun-in sub-temple and also said to be the former residence of Sokan YAMAZAKI - the founder of renga poetry.
室町時代文明年間（1469年-1487年）に妙心寺の霊雲院書院を模して建てられたとされ、連歌の祖である山崎宗鑑の旧居と伝わる。