For the beauty of its gardens, the Buddhist temple of Zuisen-JI temple in ancient times was the informal name "Temple of flowers". Programowy garden was created famous in the middle ages poet and monk-founder of the Muso Soseki. The temple is also famous for its rock garden, featuring a pond with a bridge-arch, waterfall and cave.

Zuisen-JI temple is located in the upper part of a detached hill in the area Nikaido and refers to the Buddhist Rinzai school. Was founded in 1327-1328. In the Muromachi period (1336-1573, Zuisen-JI after the fall Kamakura Shogunate came under the control of clan Ashikaga, which ruled Kamakura. On programowa cemetery, which is closed to visits to the public, buried four of the five rulers of Ashikaga. To be buried in this cemetery was the first of his clan ordered Ashikaga Motoji.

In 1386 Zuisen-JI temple is the first of the temples of Kanto region joined the group of temples the second level Jisatsu. The level of the temple was determined by the attitude of the city authorities, including funding. The temples of the first level were entered into the system Gozan, numbering five temples in kamakura and five in Kyoto.

In the most favorable years in the territory of Zuisen-JI temple was located several small temples, including temples dedicated to the mother of Ashikaga Takauji and Ashikaga Motoji, but they have not survived. It was believed that Zuisen-JI has made a great contribution to the development of so-called "literature of the Five mountains" - the direction to which it attributed the works created by the monks of the Rinzai sect in the monasteries of Kyoto and Kamakura. In Zuisen-JI temple, in particular, lived and wrote Shushin Guido – master of poetry and prose.

In the Edo period (1603-1868, the Church was gifted a statue of Thousand-armed goddess of mercy, Kannon in each hand holds an object as a sign of their readiness to respond to man's prayer, turned towards her. Another important Shrine of the temple is a statue of Jizo, Bosatsu, deity of mercy, the patron Saint of children and travelers.

On the territory of the temple complex there is a stele marking the place where the fourth ruler-Kubo Ashikaga Metuji in 1439 he committed ritual suicide to avoid disgrace and captivity. This place is called Yohan-JI temple. Another stele is erected in honor of the founder of the Muso Soseki.