Zushi

The zushi (厨子) is a kind of cabinet or small wooden shrine with doors, housing a statue or a sacred object. In the hondō, the one holding the honzon often stays closed: the statue is shown only rarely, sometimes once every thirty-three or sixty years.

The zushi of Jōdo-ji (temple 49), made in 1522, is listed together with the building: it bears the names of pilgrims who came in 1525-1531 from all over western Japan (see rakugaki).