Ginkaku-ji, the Silver Pavilion
The Silver Pavilion was never silver
Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa began this villa in imitation of his grandfather's Golden Pavilion. It was never covered in silver; the name "Silver Pavilion" was only coined in the Edo period, over a century later.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1492 Fall of Granada — 10 years later
- 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas — 12 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1469 Afanasy Nikitin's journey to India — 13 years earlier
- 1478 Annexation of Novgorod by Moscow — 4 years earlier
- 1480 Great Stand on the Ugra River — 2 years earlier
Middle East
- 1501 Founding of Safavid Iran — 19 years later
Africa
- 1488 Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope — 6 years later
Americas
- 1492 Columbus reaches the Americas — 10 years later
Alive at the time
- Christopher Columbus (aged 31)
- Leonardo da Vinci (aged 30)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (aged 9)
- Michelangelo (aged 7)
- Louis XI (aged 59)
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa (aged 46)
- Ivan III (aged 42)
- Isabella I of Castile (aged 31)
- Richard III (aged 30)
- Henry VII (aged 25)