Shōkoku-ji Temple
Also known as Shōkoku-ji
, formally identified as , is a Buddhist temple in northern Kyoto, first founded in 1382 by Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, with the existing temple complex having undergone several periods of extensive reconstruction and rebuilding in the succeeding eras.
Key facts
- Religious building.name
- Shōkoku-ji相国寺
- Religious building.image
- 150815 Shokokuji Kyoto Japan02s3.jpg
- Religious building.image_size
- 300
- Religious building.location
- 701 Shōkokuji Monzen-chō, East of Karasuma and Imadegawa Street, Kamigyō-ku, Kyōto, Kyoto Prefecture
- Religious building.religious_affiliation
- Shōkoku-ji Rinzai
- Religious building.deity
- Shaka Nyorai (Śākyamuni)
- Religious building.country
- Japan
- Religious building.functional_status
- Head Temple, Five Mountain Temple (Kyoto)
- Religious building.website
- https://www.shokoku-ji.jp/en/
- Religious building.founded_by
- Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and Musō Soseki
- Religious building.established
- 1382
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, formally identified as , is a Buddhist temple in northern Kyoto, first founded in 1382 by Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, with the existing temple complex having undergone several periods of extensive reconstruction and rebuilding in the succeeding eras.
==History== Shōkoku-ji was founded in the middle Muromachi period. Initial construction of the central temple structures was begun in 1383, and the entire temple complex was initially dedicated in 1392. In the eighth month of the third year of Meitoku, Yoshimitsu organized a great banquet attended by all the great officers of the Imperial court and the military leaders of that time. The pomp and ceremony of the affair was said to have equaled an Imperial event.
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