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Ashikaga Clan Residence
Ashikaga Clan Residence
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Built in 1196 by Ashikaga Yoshikane — the medieval warrior residence now surviving as Banna-ji Temple, its square moats and earthworks intact as a designated National Historic Site
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1196
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Castle
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About 10 min walk from JR Ashikaga Station
2220 Ietomi-cho, Ashikaga, Tochigi
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Founded 1196
830 years
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The former residence of the Ashikaga clan, surviving as Banna-ji Temple. Originally built by Ashikaga Yoshikane in 1196, it retains the typical square layout surrounded by moats and earthworks. The main hall is a National Treasure of Kamakura-period architecture. As the ancestral home of Ashikaga Takauji, it is a premier cultural heritage site alongside the Ashikaga School. The sacred ginkgo tree …
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Built in 1196 by Ashikaga Yoshikane as his manor. The residence survives as Banna-ji Temple. Ashikaga Takauji, founder of the Muromachi shogunate, descended from this clan. The main hall, rebuilt in 1299, was designated a National Treasure in 2013.
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Ashikaga Takauji
First Shogun of the Muromachi Shogunate
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Ashikaga Takauji, founder of the Muromachi shogunate, is said to have retained a deep attachment throughout his life to this ancestral Ashikaga residence (now Banna-ji Temple), and the temple still preserves ceremonial implements said to have been donated by him. Though Takauji himself mainly resided in Kamakura and Kyoto rather than at Ashikaga, he deeply revered it as his clan temple, and it remained a spiritual home for the Ashikaga family.
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