or "Golden Pavilion Temple"'s the informal name of or "Deer Garden Temple" in Kyoto, Japan. It was originally built in 1397 to serve as a retirement villa for Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, as part of his estate then known as Kitayama. It was his son who converted the building into a Zen temple of the Rinzai school. The temple was burned down twice during the Ōnin War. The Golden Pavilion, or Kinkaku,'s a three-story building on the grounds of the Rokuon-ji temple complex. The top two stories… (More on Kinkaku-ji)