Kōshōji, Buddhist temple in Kamigyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Kōshōji is a Rinzai Zen temple of the Kōshōji school in Kamigyō-ku, Kyoto, with the mountain name Entsū-zan and Shakyamuni as its principal image. Its main hall, rebuilt in 1689 as the Buddha Hall, became the dharma hall after the great fire of 1788. The precinct includes a pond garden, a hojo with sliding screens showing underwater photographs, and tea rooms named after Furuta Oribe and his wife.

Kōshōji was founded in 1603 by Kyōō Enji, a disciple of Nichijū of Myōman-ji, who moved from the neighbouring Daiō-ji to spread the teachings of the Hokke (Nichiren) school; it was first called Kōshō-ji. In the early Edo period it became a prayer temple of Retired Emperor Go-Yōzei and Emperor Go-Mizunoo. In 1701 it changed from the Nichiren school to Zen, and in 1788 the Tenmei fire burned all but the Buddha hall (now the main hall), which was rebuilt. In 1953 it became head temple of the Rinzai Kōshōji school.

The temple is also known as "Oribe-dera" after the tea master Furuta Oribe, a name promoted in the Shōwa era by the then abbot Nisshu Jōzan. Oribe's wife Sen, sister of Nakagawa Kiyohide, had retired to the Shōseiin next to Kitano Tenmangū, which later moved here as a subtemple; the Furuta family of the Oka domain built the graves of Oribe and his children on the grounds. Two tea rooms, Unryō-an and Seishō-an, take their names from Oribe's and his wife's posthumous titles.

Kōshōji stands in Kamigyō-ku, north of the imperial palace, not near Kyoto Station. The grounds are entered through a sōmon gate and then a mountain gate; the hondō, the abbot's quarters and the garden lie within. The temple is also known as Oribe-dera, so ask for that name when orienting yourself locally.

The temple is also known as "Oribe-dera" after the tea master Furuta Oribe, but no record links him to the temple. His wife Sen retired to Shōyō-in next to Kitano Tenmangū, which later moved here as a subtemple, and in the Shōwa era the Furuta family graves led to the nickname.