Castle
Yamashina Hongan-ji
🇯🇵 Japan · 15th century
Yamashina Midō (山科御堂), also known as Yamashina Hongan-ji (山科本願寺), was a fortified Buddhist temple located in what is now Yamashina-ku, Kyoto, Japan. Together with its fortified jōkamachi, it was a major center for the Ikkō-ikki, an organization of warrior monks and lay zealots who opposed samurai rule during the Sengoku period. Parts of its ruins were designated a National Historic Site in 2002.
Text adapted from “Yamashina Mido” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Yamashina Hongan-ji ranks #3,712 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #192 of the 297 mapped in Japan. Founded 1478, it is older than 51% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 224 atlas entries founded in the 15th century. See how Japan compares in the castle statistics.
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