The Kitayama culture and Higashiyama culture

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The Kitayama culture and Higashiyama culture
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The Kitayama culture is the culture which prospered centering on Kitayama with the Kinkakuji Temple as Yoshimitsu Ashikaga,
This time develops as culture which the samurai's power became strong and competed for aristocratic splendor and beauty,
Sinden-dukuri is raised to a typical thing -- the Kinkakuji Temple -- this Sinden-dukuri is further adopted also as eyes.
Although it receives, the Higashiyama culture of the Yoshimasa Ashikaga era develops focusing on the Higashiyama Jisho-ji Ginkaku
and it is simple compared with the Kitayama culture,
the style of shoin-zukuri is in fashion to Sinden-zukuri style -- the Ginkakuji temple -- eyes are this style further.
In this Higashiyama culture, it can also be said to be the time when the culture of Wabi-Sabi represented in a dry landscape garden
which leads to present-day Kyoto prospered for the first time,It is said that it was a very important time.
the difference in this culture can say that it has appeared in the showy Kinkakuji Temple, the simple Ginkakuji temple,
and each building, and meets -- coming out I think that it is a very interesting place.
The Zen Buddhism which increased influence to the origin of protection of a samurai those days is related to both,
It seems that it is considerably influenced by the China culture brought about by the Zen monk from Sou of those days or origin.
To the inside of Gozan of Gozan-Jyussetu as used in the field of Zen Buddhism incidentally
Shokoku-ji of a sect of Zen Buddhism who has managed the Kinkakuji Temple and the Ginkakuji temple, and Rinzai sect is contained.