Comments on Gigapan: Kinkaku-ji Temple (The Golden Pavilion) Kyoto, Japan

Begun in 1397, this was the golden villa of Yoshimitsu, the 3rd Shogun of Ashikaga, after he abdicated the Shogunate. The pavilion was burned in 1950 by an unstable novice monk and was completely restored in 1955. The peaceful landscape was created with a mirror-pond (Kyoko-chi) with carefully designed islands and...

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    July 20, 2008

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