Ōkura Nagasada

Ōkura Nagasada was the tenth head of the Ōkura clan, hereditary district officials who ruled part of Hita District in Bungo Province. Around 1299 he began building Gakurinji in Hita and gave thirteen years to the work.

Under an edict of Emperor Go-Daigo it became an imperial prayer temple. His son Nagatoshi, the eleventh head, continued his father's work and completed the temple halls in 1342.