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Kinkaku-ji (Golden Pavilon)


Kinkaku-ji (Golden Pavilon)
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Copyright: Darwin Bolante (Wowon) (68)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2009-10-07
Categories: Architecture
Camera: Nikkon D80, Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 ED-IF AF-S DX
Exposure: f/10.0, 1/400 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2009-10-17 8:21
Viewed: 103
Points: 0
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Kinkaku-ji(literally Temple of the Golden Pavilion?), or formally Rokuon-ji (Deer Garden Temple?) is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan.

The original Kinkaku-ji was built in 1397 to serve as a retirement villa for Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, as part of his estate then known as Kitayama. It was his son, shogun Ashikaga Yoshimochi, who converted the building into a Zen temple of the Rinzai school.

The temple was burned down twice during the Ōnin War.

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