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足利貞氏
Head of the Ashikaga clan in the Kamakura period and father of Ashikaga Takauji, founder of the Muromachi shogunate. He rebuilt Banna-ji's burned main hall in 1299.
The hall he rebuilt was an early adopter of the Zen style, then a new building fashion from China, and it became a National Treasure in 2013 as one of the oldest examples of the style in the Kanto region.
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Ashikaga, Tochigi
足利氏館
The ancestral home of the Ashikaga shoguns became a temple, and its moat and earthen banks have survived around the temple grounds for 800 years.
rebuilt the Main HallRecord source: article
