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Like Kinkaku-ji, Ginkaku-ji was originally built to serve as a place of rest and solitude for the Shōgun. During his reign as Shōgun, Ashikaga Yoshimasa inspired a new outpouring of traditional culture, which came to be known as Higashiyama Bunka (the Culture of the Eastern Mountain). Having retired to the villa, it is said Yoshimasa sat in ...
The building was an important model for Ginkaku-ji (Silver Pavilion Temple) and Shōkoku-ji, which are also located in Kyoto. [2] When these buildings were constructed, Ashikaga Yoshimasa employed the styles used at Kinkaku-ji and even borrowed the names of its second and third floors. [2]
Ginkaku-ji (literally "Temple of the Silver Pavilion"), officially named Jishō-ji (literally "Temple of Shining Mercy"), was originally built to serve as a place of rest and solitude for the shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimasa. After his death, the villa and gardens became a Buddhist temple complex.
In this comparison Kinkaku-ji, representative of Kitayama culture is compared with Ginkaku-ji, representative of Higashiyama culture. [2] Interior of the Kuri, the main building of the Ryōan-ji, featuring elements of traditional Japanese style culture such as washitsu (fusuma, tatami, and shōji) which were stylized in the Higashiyama culture
The expression "to jump off the stage at Kiyomizu" is the Japanese equivalent of the English expression "to take the plunge". [6] This refers to an Edo-period tradition that held that if one survived a 13-meter (43-foot) jump from the stage, one's wish would be granted.
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (金閣寺, Kinkaku-ji) is a novel by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima. It was published in 1956 and translated into English by Ivan Morris in 1959. The novel is loosely based on the burning of the Reliquary (or Golden Pavilion) of Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto by a young Buddhist acolyte in 1950. The pavilion, dating ...
The Jade Emperor (玉皇大帝), who is based in the celestial palace in Heaven, is the supreme ruler of the Three Realms.; The Grand Mother of Mount Li(Chinese: 驪山老母)in the novel, is the matriarch deity in the Taoist pantheon.
1397: Kinkaku-ji is built by Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. Ryōan-ji rock garden. 1450: Ryōan-ji is built by Hosokawa Katsumoto. 1457: Edo is established; 1467: The Ōnin War is split among feudal lords (daimyōs) 1489: Ginkaku-ji is built by Ashikaga Yoshimasa; 1543: Firearms are introduced by shipwrecked Portuguese