Renpuku-ji Temple, Buddhist temple in Mobara, Japan

Renpuku-ji is a Buddhist temple in Mobara featuring traditional Japanese architecture and cultivated garden spaces. The grounds provide room for religious practice and display classical design with buildings and planted areas.

Renpuku-ji was founded in 1580 by Sakai Yasuharu, lord of Toke Castle, to pray for the repose of Kurokuma Kageyoshi, lord of Honno Castle, who had turned to the Satomi clan and taken his own life. The monk Nichiyu became its founding abbot. In the Edo period the Tokugawa shogunate granted the temple a vermilion-seal charter, and it served as one of the ten Kazusa temples rotating as head temples of the Myomanji branch.

The temple houses important artworks including a Buddha painting and a cast copper bell shaped like a cloud. Visitors can see these pieces and understand how Buddhist traditions are practiced in the region.

Renpuku-ji stands at 3101 Honnō, Mobara, in Chiba Prefecture, east of the Honnō Castle site that the temple holds as a city-designated historic spot. The temple belongs to the Kenpon Hokke school and is reached from the Honnō area of Mobara; the hall entrance is up a short red stairway with a black handrail.

The temple grounds contain remnants of an old castle hidden within the gardens, telling of the region's past. A large ginkgo tree on the property is a protected natural monument that impresses visitors with its age and size.