he returned to kyoto with goku and then went to kamakura to practice zen mediation under gottan funei at kencho-ji temple . 一旦悟空とともに京都に帰京したが、鎌倉に戻り建長寺の兀庵普寧に参禅した。
although he was born in the merchant family , he seemed to practice zen meditation in many temples because he was primarily attracted to a priest . 商家に生まれるが元来より僧に興味があり幾多の寺に参禅に行ったようだ。
during the 10-year stay in kyoto , he came to practice zen under reverend gudo of myoshin-ji temple , as he temporary resided close to myoshin-ji temple in hanazono (kyoto city ). その10年に及ぶ京都滞在中、花園 (京都市)の妙心寺近辺に仮寓した縁で、妙心寺の愚堂禅師に参禅するようになった。
it hardly had any doctrine or religious inside substance , but treated shakuhachi as a ritual apparatus and played it to practice zen or to do takuhatsu (a traditional form of begging , common to buddhist monks in japan ). 教義や信仰上の内実はほとんどなく、尺八を法器と称して禅の修行や托鉢のために吹奏した。
the temple came to serve as the graveyard of successive members of the three sen families (omote sen-ke , ura sen-ke , mushanokoji sen-ke ) after sen no rikyu came to the temple to practice zen with founding priest shorei . 千利休が開祖・笑嶺和尚に参禅したことから利休の墓をはじめ，三千家（表千家・裏千家・武者小路千家）歴代の墓所となっている。
