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*''Japanese'': 湯島聖堂 ''(Yushima seidou)''
The Yushima Seidô is a [[Confucian shrine]] located in [[Tokyo]].
The shrine traces its history to a Confucian shrine called Senseiden, established by [[Hayashi Razan]] in [[1632]] in Shinobu-ga-oka (today, [[Ueno Park]]). Shogun [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]] renamed the structure the Taiseiden, and the shrine complex "Seidô," as he removed the shrine to Ochanomizu in [[1691]]. Some of the buildings were repainted vermillion, with blue and green highlights, at that time.
Meanwhile, the [[Hayashi clan]]'s [[Shoheizaka gakumonjo|Shôheizaka gakumonjo]] academy was moved onto the grounds of the shrine, and came to be housed in the Taiseiden.
The shrine was named a national historical landmark in 1922, but was destroyed in the Great Kantô Earthquake the following year. It was rebuilt in 1935, in steel-reinforced-concrete, instead of in wood, and painted in black, inside and out. The roof was done in the ''[[irimoya]]'' style, with bronze ornaments. The world's largest statue of [[Confucius]], a 1975 gift from the Taipei Lions Club, stands inside.
==References==
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%B9%AF%E5%B3%B6%E8%81%96%E5%A0%82 Yushima seidô]." ''Koku shitei shiseki kanzen guide no kaisetsu'' 国指定史跡完全ガイドの解説, Kodansha, 2013.
[[Category:Historic Buildings]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
