The Honnō-ji Temple from Kyoto remained in the Japanese history as the place of death of Oda Nobunaga, one of the most important lords of the Sengoku period. During what is known today as the Honno-ji Incident, Nobunaga was forced to commit seppuku here, betrayed by his most trusted general, Akechi Mitsuhide.
However, today’s Honnō-ji is not exactly in the same location, because several years after the incident the lord Toyotomi Hideyoshi started a large scale reconstruction process in Kyoto, enlarging streets and moving several temples in Teramachi-dori, the “Temple Town Street".
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