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It is a wallpaper photograph of the Ginkakuji temple and autumnal leaves.
Higashiyama Jisho-ji is an official name and the Ginkakuji temple is a temple
belonging to a Rinzai sect Shokoku-ji group. Foundation is completed as Jisho-ji,
in order that Yoshimasa may pray to Buddha for the happiness of the dead around 1490
after Yoshimasa Ashikaga death,Although called Higashiyama den as a retirement place of Yoshimasa from the first,
in order that Yoshimasa may pray to Buddha for the happiness of the dead around 1490 after Yoshimasa Ashikaga death,
it has completed as Jisho-ji. Although the name of the Ginkakuji temple calls the Kannon Ginkaku to Yoshimitsu's Kinkaku,
silver leaf is not stuck on the Ginkakuji temple like the Kinkakuji Temple.
Moreover, the Ginkakuji temple is a building of two layers to the Kinkakuji Temple of three layers.
The first floor is called Sinkuden and the second floor is called Tyoonkaku.
It is said that there was no plan for silver leaf to be stuck from the first since the building
of Ginkaku which looks very simple made the keynote Wabi-Sabi, the tea ceremony,
and the simple Zen Buddhism culture which are also called the Higashiyama culture
to the gay Kitayama culture.
The Ginkakuji temple serves as a Pond Spring stroll garden which makes Kinkyochi an excursion.
Moreover, it is covered with moss without the crevice and green contrast of autumnal leaves and
the moss of a garden also has a very beautiful thing as it is said that the garden in the Ginkakuji temple
imitated Koke-dera. The walk way is made along Higashiyama and the garden can also overlook
the Ginkakuji temple and the whole garden from a top. The best time to see of the autumnal leaves
of the Ginkakuji temple turns into the end [ of November ] - end time.
Although visited for two consecutive weeks, last one of autumnal leaves was beautiful.
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