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Kinkakuji (Golden Pavilion)

 

Rokuon-ji Temple is a temple of the Rinzai Sōkokuji School in Kita-ku, Kyoto. The Syariden, a three-story building with gold leaf inside and outside the building, is known as the Kinkaku, and the entire temple including the Syariden is known as the Kinkakuji. It is a sub-temples outside the Sogokuji Temple. The name of the temple is based on the Rokuonin, the posthumous Buddhist name of Yoshimitsu Ashikaga, the third shogun of the Muromachi shogunate. Sango - the mountain number is Kitayama. Jimon - the temple crest is Goshichinokiri. The Kitayama Sanso of Yoshimitsu was made a temple after its death.

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