I love meeting with monks;
Some are kind, some are indifferent, some are focused on other things, and some are focused on you.
Years of meditation and practiced insight given certain monks the ability to read people. It is disconcerting to be read so easily by anyone, least a monk ready to correct your dissolution. Visitors are always in danger of being given advice that they may or may not be ready to hear.
Built in 1546 and used as a secret Christian temple, Zuihoin has since reverted into its Buddhist origins. The gardens retain their original Christian symbolism.