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Ginkaku-ji
Ginkaku-ji, the Temple of the Silver Pavilion, is a Zen temple in eastern Kyoto, Japan, built from 1482 as the retirement villa of the shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa. Despite its name, the pavilion was never covered in silver. The villa was a centre of Higashiyama culture, which shaped the tea ceremony, ink painting and garden design, and it became a temple after Yoshimasa's death in 1490.
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