The ceiling board was reconstructed in the temple from Fushimi Momoyama-jo Castle, and there remains a trace of Mototada TORII, a vassal of the Tokugawa family who killed himself upon being defeated by Mitsunari ISHIDA in 1600, which resulted in a bloody ceiling. 天井板は伏見桃山城から移築したもので1600年に徳川家家臣鳥居元忠らが石田三成に破れ自刃したときの跡が残り、血天井となっている。 |