Shōjuraigō-ji, Buddhist temple in Hieizutsuji, Ōtsu, Japan

Shōjuraigō-ji is a Tendai temple at Hieizutsu in Ōtsu, at the eastern foot of Mount Hiei near Lake Biwa. Its main hall, rebuilt in 1665, has a hipped roof with tiles on the front and back and copper sheets shaped like tiles on the sides, and a stone rather than wooden veranda. The guest hall (1639) and the front gate, said to come from Mitsuhide Akechi's Sakamoto Castle, are also Important Cultural Properties.

According to temple tradition, Saichō founded the site in 790 as Jizōkyō-in, though no contemporary source confirms this. In 1001 the monk Genshin (Eshin Sōzu) revived it as a nenbutsu practice hall and named it Shōjuraigō-ji after seeing Amida and twenty-five bodhisattvas on purple clouds. The monk Shingen, son of Rokkaku Takayori, restored it in 1527. It escaped Oda Nobunaga's 1571 burning of Mount Hiei, reportedly because the grave of Nobunaga's retainer Mori Yoshinari was there.

The name Shōjuraigō-ji refers to the descent of Amida and the bodhisattvas to welcome the dying to the Western Pure Land. The temple keeps 15 National Treasure scrolls of the Six Realms, painted in the Kamakura period after Genshin's Ōjōyōshū; they are shown publicly at the annual airing of temple treasures on 16 August.

Shōjuraigō-ji is at 2-4-17 Hieizutsuji, Ōtsu, a 15-minute walk from JR Hieizan-Sakamoto Station on the Kosei Line. From JR Ōtsu Station or Keihan Biwako-Hamaōtsu Station, take the Enkaku bus bound for Katata and get off at the Raigōji-Kanechika-mae stop, right by the temple.

The temple kept its medieval treasures because, during Oda Nobunaga's 1571 burning of Mount Hiei, the abbot had the Buddha statues and ritual implements loaded onto boats and ferried across Lake Biwa to Hyōzu Taisha. The temple itself escaped the fire, said to be because the grave of Nobunaga's retainer Mori Yoshinari stood in its grounds.