This is an example of representative architecture from the Kitayama culture, built in the Kitayama mountain villa (the Kitayama mountain villa was named Rokuon-ji Temple after Yoshimitsu's posthumous Buddhist name after his death).
北山文化を代表するもので足利義満が北山山荘に造営した（北山山荘は義満死後その法名をとって鹿苑寺となる）。