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Shisen-dō

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Shisen-do is a Buddhist temple of the Soto Zen school in the Sakyo ward of Kyoto, Japan. It began as the private villa of the scholar and garden designer Ishikawa Jozan, a former vassal of Tokugawa Ieyasu, who converted it into a temple in 1641 after his retirement and designed its garden himself. The main hall displays portraits of thirty-six celebrated Chinese poets painted by the artist Kano Tan'yu, and the garden includes a sozu, a bamboo device that clacks to frighten away animals, regarded as a masterwork of Japanese garden design enjoyed across all four seasons. Shisen-do was designated a National Historic Site in 1928 and remains an active temple open to visitors. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Building Type
Temple 1
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Sakyō-ku, Japan 2
Completed Year
1641 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
Temple / Shrine 2
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Temple, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

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  • Also in Geography Atlas: Japan, located there.
Sources
1. Shisen-dō (Wikipedia)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shisen-dō, lead definition
    Shisen-dō (詩仙堂) is a Buddhist temple located in Sakyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan.
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Shisen-do is a Buddhist temple of the Soto Zen school in the Sakyo ward of Kyoto, Japan. It began as the private villa of the scholar and garden designer Ishikawa Jozan, a former vassal of Tokugawa Ieyasu, who converted it into a temple in 1641 after his retirement and designed its garden himself. The main hall displays portraits of thirty-six celebrated Chinese poets painted by the artist Kano Tan'yu, and the garden includes a sozu, a bamboo device that clacks to frighten away animals, regarded as a masterwork of Japanese garden design enjoyed across all four seasons. Shisen-do was designated a National Historic Site in 1928 and remains an active temple open to visitors.
  • Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field (1641)
    completion_date/completed = 1641
  • Wikipedia infobox building_type field (Temple)
    Shisen-dō (詩仙堂) is a Buddhist temple located in Sakyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan. It belongs to the Sōtō school of Japanese Zen and its honzon is an image of Merōfu Kannon. The temple's full name is Rorozan Shisen-dō Jōzan-ji (六六山 詩仙堂 丈山寺), with the temple name coming from the fact that it was originally the villa of the Edo period intellectual Ishikawa Jōzan (1583-1672), who established the temple in 1641.
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2. Shisen-do (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Sakyō-ku, Japan
Quote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Sakyō-ku, Japan
Wikidata item Q3028486, property P131/P17 (location): Sakyō-ku, Japan
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