A summer and winter views of the lovely Kinkaku-ji, Golden Pavilion Temple in Kyoto.
This temple is one of 17 locations comprising the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto World Heritage Site.
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Kinkaku-ji is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan.
Kinkakuji was built in 1393 as a retirement villa for Shogun Yoshimitsu Ashikaga (1358-1409). He intended to cover the exterior with gold, but only managed to coat the ceiling of the third floor with gold leaf before his death.
JP-318950, sent by pupunin.
The shogun lived here in luxury as Kyoto's people suffered the effects of severe famine, earthquakes and plague - as many as 1,000 people died each day during this period.
After his death, his son converted the building into a Zen temple of the Rinzai school named Rokuonji, in accordance with Ashikaga's wishes. This was an established tradition and many of Kyoto's temples are former retirement villas.
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Kinkakuji burned down several times during the Onin War. In 1950, the Golden Pavilion burned again, this time by a fanatical monk.
The present temple structure dates from 1955, which was rebuilt true to the original except for a significant enhancement: both upper stories are covered in gold leaf, in accordance with Ashikaga's original intentions. In 1987, the temple was re-covered in gold leaf five times thicker than the original coating! - in: http://www.sacred-destinations.com/japan/kyoto-kinkakuji
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