Sento Imperial Palace

The Imperial Palace of the retired emperor or retired emperor. It is also called the Imperial Palace of the retired emperor. From the early Heian period onwards, it became customary for an emperor to leave the Dairi (Imperial Palace) and move to another Imperial Palace when he abdicated. This was the Sento Imperial Palace, where the Innocho (Inn's Office), a household administrative body, was established and an Inshi (Inn's Office) was appointed. From the mid-Heian period onwards, the Sato Dairi (Sato Dairi) was often used as the Imperial Palace of the retired emperor, and especially during the Insei period, the activities of the retired emperor became more active and Sento (Sentō) were created in various places. From the Middle Ages onwards, as the power of the samurai increased, the Sento Imperial Palace declined, and in the early modern period, the shogunate concentrated the Sento Imperial Palace around the Dairi (present-day Kyoto Imperial Palace). The Sento Imperial Palace, which currently stands to the southeast of the Kyoto Imperial Palace, was built in 1630 (Kan'ei 7) for Emperor Gomizuno, with Kobori Enshu as the magistrate. When it burned down in 1854 (Ansei 1), it was not rebuilt because there was no one to live in the temple, and only the garden remains today.

[Sanae Yoshida]

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上皇、法皇の御所。院の御所ともいう。平安初期以降、天皇は譲位すると内裏(だいり)を出て別の御所に移るのが例となった。これが仙洞御所で、家政機関である院庁(いんのちょう)が置かれ、院司(いんし)が定められた。平安中期以後は里内裏(さとだいり)を院の御所とすることも多く、とくに院政期には院の活動が活発化し、各所に仙洞ができた。中世以後、武士の勢力が増すにつれて衰亡し、近世になると幕府によって内裏（現在の京都御所）の周辺に集中させられた。現在、京都御所の南東に残る仙洞御所は、1630年（寛永7）小堀遠州(こぼりえんしゅう)を奉行として後水尾(ごみずのお)天皇のために造営された。1854年（安政1）焼失のおりに、仙洞に住むべき院が不在であったため再建されず、いまは庭園のみが残っている。

［吉田早苗］

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