daitoku-ji temple ' s main temple building is not open to the public (holds a bakuryoten on a sunday in early october each year to display fusuma paintings etc .) 大徳寺本坊は非公開(例年10月上旬の日曜日に襖絵等を公開する曝涼展が行われる)。
the method of performing a hundred-fold visit is as follows: go from the entrance to the temple or shrine as far as the main worship hall or main temple building and pay homage , and then return to the entrance of the temple or shrine , and simply repeat this process one hundred times . 百度参りの方法は、社寺の入口から拝殿・本堂まで行って参拝し、また社寺の入口まで戻るということを百度繰り返す。
shokoku-ji temple , as the main temple building of unchoin , where masanobu created the screen paintings , is a zendera temple constructed by yoshimitsu ashikaga , the third shogun of the muromachi shogunate; it is the heart of the muromachi art world , which produced artist-monks such as josetsu , shubun , sesshu; moreover , in those days sotan (sotan oguri , 1413 - 1481 ), an artist-monk who was a disciple of shubun , worked as an official painter . 正信が壁画を描いた雲頂院の本寺である相国寺は室町幕府3代将軍足利義満創建の禅寺で、如拙、周文、雪舟らの画僧を輩出した室町画壇の中心的存在であり、この当時は周文の弟子にあたる画僧・宗湛(小栗宗湛、1413 - 1481)が御用絵師として活動していた。