Tafukuji located in Miyoshi-machi, Iruma-gun, Saitama Prefecture is a temple of the Rinzai sect. The main object of worship is Shaka Nyorai.
In 1694, the lord of the Kawagoe domain, Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, carried out the land surveys to end the conflict having occurred in the villages of Santome and got farmers settled in the new land. Then Yoshiyasu invited the priest Doten Esui at Tohokuji Temple in Edo and founded Tafukuji Temple in Kamitome Village in 1696 as the family temple of the farmers. He also constructed Bishamonsha Shrine in Nakatome Village as the place to offer prayers. Since then the temple and the shrine have been the spiritual prop of the local people.
The temple has suffered from a fire twice but Buddhist statues, sutra scrolls and treasured fixtures and fittings escaped the fires and have been preserved without any damage. The present main hall was reconstructed in 1883. Surrounded by the Musashino copse, the temple stands just as it was 300 years ago.