| 688 jpg[200×129] Построенный в 794 году по примеру столиц древнего Китая Киото был столицей японских императоров до Publishing origin | |
| w688 jpg[300×201] Ancient Kyoto consists of the current towns Kyoto Uji and Otsu Kyoto was the center of Japanese culture for thousand years from 794 This still can be seen in the religious wooden Publishing origin | |
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| japan2001 kyoto sheet02 jp[382×580] In 1185 the Minamoto shoguns moved the political capital from Kyoto to Kamakura near present day Tokyo founding the Kamakura period Aristocratic culture continued in Kyoto but on a Publishing origin | |
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| kyoto 002 jpg[180×135] time there seemed to be no end to the people willing to jump from there and in order to stop this phenomenon the government enacted a law in 1872 to prohibit jumping Rokuon ji Temple commonly known as Kinkaku ji or Golden Pavilion was constructed in 1224 as a second house for an aristocrat Later Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu 1358 1408 took it over as Publishing origin | |
| kyoto 003 jpg[180×135] novel Kinkaku ji by Yukio Mishima 1925 1970 is based on an incident in 1950 when a young monk obsessed by the temple s beauty set fire to it and burnt it down Ryoan ji Temple is a well known for its Sekitei rock garden There are no ponds or other water features in this garden natural water scenery is expressed using stones and gravel The simple Publishing origin |