Kinkaku-ji (金閣寺) 金閣寺
A novice monk burned it down in 1950: today's gold is from 1987, 200,000 leaves and twenty kilos.
Its real name is Rokuon-ji (鹿苑寺), literally ‘temple of the deer park’: the Golden Pavilion is the building that makes it recognisable, not the whole temple. Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, head of the Muromachi military government, began building it in 1397, diverting water from the Kamo River for the pond. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1994 as part of the ‘Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto’.
Kyoto
Kinkakuji-michi (Kinkakuji Temple), Kinkakuji-michi (Kinkakuji Temple), Ritsumeikan Daigaku-mae (Ritsumeikan Univ.)
You and I Are Polar Opposites
A stop on the school trip in the eleventh episode.
