Chūjō Hidenaga

Chūjō Hidenaga was a commander of the Chūjō house of Musashi, a family of the Yokoyama party. In 1335, as lord of Koromo Castle in Mikawa Province, he invited the Zen monk Taiyō Gichū and founded Chōkō-ji as his family temple.

With its eighteen subtemples it was then the largest monastery in the region. Under the new Muromachi shogunate he was appointed shugo, military governor, of Owari Province, holding the post from 1336 to 1338.