Shushoin

Shushoin is located in Arakawa ward, Tokyo. It is a temple of the Nichiren sect, about a 2 minute walk from "Seunji Temple".The vibrant cherry-colored fence facing the road will impress you on first sight. Here, you can see a variety of figures of the god Hoteison drawn by Kenichi Yoshino, a painter from Arakawa Ward.  Shushoin enshrines the statue of Hoteison, who is one of the seven Shichifukujin gods worshipped all around Japan. Shushoin belongs to a set of seven temples in Tokyo, which are referred to together as the Yanaka Shichifukujin.You can see the warm and gentle personality of Hoteison from his appearance on the statue.
Like the neighboring "Seiun-ji", it was popular as a cherry-blossom viewing spot during the Edo period, so it is nicknamed the "Flower-viewing temple". The renown Ukiyo-e artist, Utagawa Hiroshige's famed "Hundred Views of Edo" contains a painting that is said to depict the cherry blossoms here.