BAL58417 Butsudan shrine from a Daimyo\'s palace at Kyoto, contains a representation of a temple with graduated pagoda roof (gilded wood) by Japanese School; Private Collection; (add.info.: Daimyo was a Japanese feudal lord; Subordinate only to the Sh?gun, daimy?s were the most powerful feudal rulers from the 10th century to the middle 19th century in Japan. A Butsudan, sometimes spelled Butudan (隞?, literally "Buddhist altar"), is a shrine commonly found in temples and homes in Japanese Buddhist cultures); Japanese, out of copyright.