midou 御堂
KEY WORD : architecture / buildings & structures
 
1 Another name for a temple called Houjouji 法成寺, built at the end of the tenth to beginning of the 11c for Fujiwara Michinaga 藤原道長 (966-1029) in Kyoto on the west bank of the Kamo 賀茂 River. It is no longer extant.

2 An honorific name for a temple hall in which a Buddhist statue is enshrined.
 
 

 
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