shouden 正殿
KEY WORD : architecture / buildings & structures
 
Also pronounced seiden.

1 The center building of a palace, also called omotegoten 表御殿.

2 Another term for Shishinden 紫宸殿, Kyoto Gosho 京都御所, reconstructed in 1855.

3 A shrine building dedicated to the principal deity. See *honden 本殿.
 
 

 
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