Kinkakuji Temple of winter

It is a wallpaper photograph of the Kinkakuji Temple of winter.

It is a reliquary hall of the Kinkakuji Temple which shines with golden color in the morning of winter. Although it was the Kinkakuji Temple performed targeting the snow-covered landscape,Although it entered simultaneously with opening of the gate, though regrettable, the Kinkakuji Temple which had already solved the snow of the roof is one of the semiautonomous subtemples of Shokoku-ji in the status called the second in Kyoto Gozan,with a point with an altitude of 97m of Kita-ku, Kyoto-shi Kitayama, it is located a little in heights rather than the inside of a capital city -- it is a building very famous also as a building of the three-layer structure where gold leaf is stretched to the 3rd layer with the 2nd layer. Three generation of Muromachi government general Yoshimitsu Ashikaga will build in 1397. That to which Yoshimitsu Ashikaga remodeled and built Saionji and the Kitayama mountain villa which Fujiwara Kintune (Saionji Kintune) who was the former Imperial Court built in 1224 is the present Kinkakuji Temple. Yoshimitsu Ashikaga is supposed that business as a generalissimo shogun was performed here those days. that time -- a Kinkakuji Temple self-object -- a scale is larger and the present Kinkakuji Temple remains as a form where it was behind dissolved except the reliquary hall by Ashikaga Yoshimochi. An official name is called Rokuon-ji and this is so called from the Buddhist name "Rokuonin Tenzan Dougi" after Yoshimitsu Ashikaga's death. It is by the 4th generation general Ashikaga Yoshimochi to have named Rokuon-ji from the Buddhist name. The reliquary hall is called Kinkaku, it has three-layer structure, and the style of building of the samurai structure to which, as for the second layer, the style of building of the classic aristocratic mansion style to which eyes are called Hosui-in is called Tyoon-do, and Kukkyotyo of the third layer serve as a building of the Zen Buddhism style further. The Kitayama culture which is the culture of the Yoshimitsu Ashikaga era as the simplicity and fortitude of these Imperial Court culture and a samurai and Kinkaku where the culture of Zen Buddhism is mixed there are symbolic is realized by fusion of each [ these ] culture. Although the Kinkakuji Temple has had 600 years or more of history since erection of the Muromachi period, in the meantime, the building is burned down several times. In the Onin War which bisected Kyoto in August, 1467, Yamana Sozen of the west army covered here the Kinkakuji Temple with the position, and almost all buildings were burned down by having developed the severe battle. Moreover, the Kinkakuji Temple reliquary hall was destroyed by fire by arson in 1850, and it is rebuilt in 1955 (Showa 30). The building of the present Kinkakuji Temple is re-covering gold leaf in 1987 (Showa 62). Although it was the Kinkakuji Temple which will pass from re-covering for about 20 years, gold leaf was still beautiful, and especially reflection of the snow-covered landscape of a winter season, and a blue sky and the gold leaf of the Kinkakuji Temple was brilliant. Although the gate of the Kinkakuji Temple is opened at 9:00 in the morning, if it is fine at least in case of immediately after [ the ], the Kinkakuji Temple which the morning sun shines into gold leaf and shines with brilliant golden color can be seen.

To the Kinkakuji Temple of winter	The Kinkakuji Temple which shines with golden color	The Kinkakuji Temple of the morning of winter	The Kinkakuji Temple of winter
Ask for the snowy Kinkakuji Temple	The Kinkakuji Temple of the New Year's Day	The phoenix and blue sky of gold leaf	Snow-covered landscape which was not seen
Kinkakuji Temple Golden winter	Aim at the snow-covered landscape of the Kinkakuji Temple	The garden of snowcap	The roof of the Kinkakuji Temple which snow has solved
The Kinkakuji Temple and the garden of winter	The snow-covered landscape is a rain check	The Kokerabuki roof of the Kinkakuji Temple	Snow which remains in the thatch roof of Sekka-tei