Yoshimasa's Life in a Zen Temple

Yoshimasa was forced to rely on donations from other religious institutions or warlords who wanted to get in his good graces. By the and he was reduced to literally begging the rich of koto for cash to build his retreat. Fortunately, the ashkagan name still had enough lustre attached to it that there were people willing to throw him a bone. And even those who had less affection for the old shoganate were generally willing to support he temple,. which this technically was speaking of. Which why is yoshimasa living in a temple? Part because leaving politics to become a monk was a long standing tradition in japan by this point. But also because the bud