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Kinkaku-ji

Zen temple in northern Kyoto, officially Rokuon-ji, whose gold-leafed pavilion stands at the edge of a mirror pond. It began as the retirement villa of shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu; the present pavilion is a 1955 rebuilding after a novice monk burned the original in 1950.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1397 CE mainstream
  Ashikaga Yoshimitsu takes over the Kitayama villa and begins building his residence source
• 1408 CE disputed
  converted into the Zen temple Rokuon-ji after Yoshimitsu's death in 1408 source
• 1950 CE mainstream
  Golden Pavilion burned down by a novice monk source
• 1955 CE mainstream
  pavilion rebuilt as a close copy of the original source
• 1994 CE mainstream
  inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site source

Where

35.0394° N, 135.7294° E

Sources

• https://www.shokoku-ji.jp/en/kinkakuji/about/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkaku-ji

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