Kinkaku-ji, the Golden Pavilion
A pavilion covered in gold leaf, built as a shogun's villa
Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu built a villa whose upper floors are covered in gold leaf; after his death it became a temple. In 1950 a young monk burned it down; the pavilion seen today was rebuilt in 1955.
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The Golden Pavilion that tourists see in Kyoto is younger than the Eiffel Tower. The 1397 original was burned by a monk in 1950, and today's building dates from 1955, 66 years after the tower. Share →
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1385 Union of Krewo — 12 years earlier
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1380 Battle of Kulikovo — 17 years earlier
- 1410 Battle of Grunwald — 13 years later
- c. 1411 Andrei Rublev's Trinity — 14 years later
Middle East
- 1402 Battle of Ankara — 5 years later
Africa
- 1377 Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah — 20 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Timur (aged 61)
- Ibn Khaldun (aged 65)
- Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (aged 39)
- Andrei Rublev (aged 37)
- Bayezid I the Thunderbolt (aged 37)
- Richard II (aged 30)
- Sigismund (aged 29)
- Zheng He (aged 26)
- Henry V (aged 11)
- Sejong the Great (aged 0)