Shunkoden - Shunkoden

It is also read as "Shunkyoden." It is the name of a palace in the Heian Palace's inner palace. It is located to the east of the south garden of the Shishinden Hall and south of the Gyoden Hall. It is a cypress bark-roofed building that faces west, with eaves on the east and west (or east-west-north) sides of the main building, which is seven bays from north to south and two bays from east to west, and a grand eaves on the east. The main building housed weapons, the eastern eaves housed the Naijudokoro, where the children who served the imperial court were kept, and the western eaves was used for various ceremonies. After the Kamakura period, the Kashikodokoro, which enshrined a sacred mirror, was moved here, and continued to be so until the capital was moved to Tokyo in 1869 (Meiji 2). When Emperor Taisho ascended to the throne, the Shunkoden Hall was constructed to the east of the Shishinden Hall as a place to house the sacred mirror at the Kyoto Imperial Palace, and remains there to this day.

[Sanae Yoshida]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

「しゅんきょうでん」とも読む。平安宮内裏(だいり)の殿舎の名。紫宸殿(ししんでん)南庭の東、宜陽殿(ぎようでん)の南にある。檜皮葺(ひわだぶ)きで南北7間、東西2間の母屋(もや)の東西（あるいは東西北）に廂(ひさし)、東に孫廂のある西向きの建物。母屋には武具を納め、東廂には宮中に仕える童子のいる内豎所(ないじゅどころ)があり、西廂は各種の儀式に使われた。鎌倉時代以降、神鏡を祀(まつ)る賢所(かしこどころ)が移され、1869年（明治2）の東京遷都まで続いた。また大正天皇即位のとき、京都御所に神鏡を安置する所として、紫宸殿の東に春興殿が造営され、現在に至っている。

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