Requires
- Buildings:
- Resources:
Basic Building Statistics (can be modified by difficulty level, arts, skills, traits and retainers)
- Cost: 5850
- +4 happiness
- +2 experience for all warrior monk recruits
- +1 rank(s) for sou recruited in this province
- Enables recruitment of Rank 1 sou
Clan Effects
- Each religious chain building enables you to sustain one additional sou (to a maximum of 5)
Description
Fame is a mayfly hovering above the unchanging water.
A great temple serves as a focus for religious devotion and a place of pilgrimage. Its monks are men of enormous faith, entirely devoted to their work. At the heart of such a temple there is often a reliquary, a focus for pilgrims. More usefully, for the temple's noble sponsors, are the training halls and scholastic facilities that produce learned and enthusiastic monks, eager to spread the word. The building style of the earliest Buddhist temples was not particularly Japanese, as they copied Chinese and Korean patterns. Over time these changed to become more distinctively Japanese to cope with the local climate, and to withstand earthquakes. There was also less distinction than might be expected between Buddhist and Shinto buildings. It was not unusual to find that Buddhist temples included Shinto shrines within them, so that the local kami would not be disturbed. Likewise, larger Shinto shrines would have Buddhist temples somewhere within the shrine complex. It was only after the Meiji Restoration in 1868 that a stricter division was introduced into Japanese religious life.