Kitano Kyoo-do Hall was constructed by Yoshimitsu ASHIKAGA in 1401 in memory of those who died in the Meitoku War (the War of Ujikiyo YAMANA) but was demolished as part of the separation of Buddhism and Shintoism that took place in the early part of the Meiji period. 北野経王堂は、足利義満が明徳の乱(山名氏清の乱)の戦没者を悼んで応永8年(1401年)に建立したものであったが、明治初年の神仏分離によって破却された。 |