The family temple of the Ashikaga shoguns, founded by Ashikaga Takauji. The Reikoden hall houses wooden statues of all fifteen Ashikaga shoguns, and the garden attributed to Muso Soseki is beautiful.
Founded in 1341 by Ashikaga Takauji with Muso Soseki as founding priest. As the Ashikaga family temple, it enshrines memorial tablets and wooden statues of successive shoguns. The Reikoden hall displays all 15 shogunal statues from Takauji to Yoshiaki, plus one of Tokugawa Ieyasu. The northern garde…
Averting disaster, directional protection, warding off epidemics. Central at Fudo, Kannon, and Gion-related sites.
Derived from the enshrined deity "釈迦如来"
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