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After the conclusion of peace between the Northern and Southern Courts the temple Shokoku-ji was destroyed by fire and it remained in ashes until the time of Yoshimasa, when the priest, Chushin, persuaded the shogun to undertake the work of reconstruction.
Under the name of Cho Densu the Abbot Cho he acquired perpetual fame by his paintings of Buddhist saints. But Mincho's religious pictures did not help to introduce the Sung academy to Japan. That task was reserved for Josetsu a priest of Chinese or Japanese origin who, during the second half of the fourteenth century, became the teacher of many students at the temple Shokoku-ji, in Kyoto.
They built for it five great temples in Kamakura, and that example was followed by the Ashikaga in Kyoto. The five fanes in the capital were called collectively, Go-zan. They were Kennin-ji, Tofuku-ji, Nanzen-ji, Tenryu-ji, and Shokoku-ji.
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