The Sanjō bōmon Temple-Palace Complex : The First Locus of Ashikaga Authority in Medieval Kyoto

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  • 複合的建造群としての三条坊門殿 : 中世京都における初期足利政権の本拠地
  • The Sanjo bomon temple-palace complex: the first locus of Ashikaga authority in medieval Kyoto

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The locations in Kyoto where the founding members of the Ashikaga shogunate lived, worked, and engaged in public religious activities are largely unknown. This study seeks to rectify this problem by introducing the signifi cance of the Sanjō bōmon palace and the Zen temple of Tōjiji to initial Ashikaga power in medieval Kyoto. The Sanjō bōmon palace was Ashikaga Tadayoshi’s (1306–52) fi rst residence in medieval Kyoto. It was there where the shogunal deputy established and administered the earliest bureaucratic organs of the Ashikaga military regime. Adjacent to this structure was Tōjiji, a Zen temple that Tadayoshi made into a public venue of Ashikaga memorial rituals. This study fi nds that these two sites comprised an integrated architectural complex that provided Tadayoshi the physical infrastructure to exercise sweeping and largely autonomous political, religious, and familial authority. So central was this “temple-palace complex” to institutionalized warrior power that, by the 1350s, it had become the nucleus of the capital’s most substantial warrior enclave. An examination of the site’s origins, physical traits, and functions sheds light on the foundational role Tadayoshi played in both the establishment of shogunal institutions and the creation of religious traditions critical to the Ashikaga family’s long term success. The campaign to oust Tadayoshi that was launched in 1350 by Ashikaga Takauji (1305–58), who was both shogun and elder brother, was as much about asserting political dominance as gaining control over the Sanjō bōmon complex, the fi rst base of Ashikaga political and familial authority in Kyoto.

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