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Enryaku-ji & Mt. Hiei

Oda Nobunaga’s Infamous Massacre

11 min readMar 11, 2021

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Mt. Hiei’s Enryaku-ji temple complex in Kyoto burns from Oda Nobunaga’s attack. — This story was originally published on donnykimball.com and has been syndicated here on Medium

“I am going to burn them with the flames of war and let the true Buddha be called forth from these ashes!”
— Oda Nobunaga

Donny Kimball

Written by Donny Kimball

I'm a travel writer and freelance digital marketer who blogs about the sides of Japan that you can't find in the mainstream media. https://donnykimball.com/

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