Kinkaku-ji

Kinkakuji (in Japanese: 金閣寺, the house of gold) is one of the buildings of the Rokuonji (鹿苑寺, imperial temple of the garden of the stag S) located at Kyōto, Japan.

In the years 1220, it was the comfortable villa of Kintsune Saionji. Yoshimitsu, 3rd of the Shoguns Ashikaga, abdicates in 1394 to leave the place to his/her son Yochimochi. Three years later, in 1397, it starts to build Kitayamaden while making of sound to better do an exceptional place of it. The site is used to him then as place of retreat during its old days. With his death and in accordance with his wills, his/her son Yochimochi makes of it a temple Zen of the school Rinzai.

The temple was flaring several times during the Guerre of Ōnin and only the house of gold survived. The garden however kept its aspect of the time.

What returned the temple celebrates, it is the gold house (金閣, kinkaku ), located in its garden. The building is entirely covered with pure gold, except for the ground floor. The house is used as Shariden , containing relics of Bouddha. On the roof a Fenghuang gilded, or " is; phoenix chinois" (Jp. 鳳凰 hōō ).

From an architectural point of view, it is a harmonious and elegant building which gathers 3 different types of architecture: rez of roadway (Hō-sui-in) is of style Shinden-zukuri, the style of the palates. The first stage (Chō-one-dō) follows the Buke-zukuri style of the houses of Samurai. The second stage (Kukkyō-chō) is of style Karayō, that of the temples Zen. The roof is covered with shingles.

In 1950, the temple was entirely burned by a mentally defective monk; this event is in the center of the named fiction of Yukio Mishima the gold house . The current building goes back to 1955.

In 1987, the temple is renovated and receives a new layer, thicker, gold sheets.

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