A temple located in the northwest corner of Kyoto where the Ashikaga shoguns are memorialized. Statues representing the shoguns are ranged around one building overlooking a quiet garden dating from the Muromachi (or Ashikaga) period, 1338-1573. Heads from three of the statues, including Ashikaga Takauji, the first Ashikaga shogun, were cut off and posted at the Sanjo Bridge (as if they were common criminals) to protest the Tokugawa shogunate in the mid-1800s.
