{"id":876,"date":"2008-09-11T03:18:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T10:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=876"},"modified":"2012-01-03T11:04:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T18:04:27","slug":"ginkakuji-%e9%8a%80%e9%96%a3%e5%af%ba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/ginkakuji-%e9%8a%80%e9%96%a3%e5%af%ba\/","title":{"rendered":"Ginkakuji (\u9280\u95a3\u5bfa)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_1426trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-877\" title=\"ginkakuji zen buddhist sand garden\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_1426trim-800x514.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_1426trim-800x514.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_1426trim-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_1426trim.jpg 1634w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Golden Pavilion (\u91d1\u95a3\u5bfa) is gold. Hence the \u91d1 character. So you would think the Silver Pavilion would be silver since it has the \u9280 character. Nope; it&#8217;s all made out of wood. I think the plan was to cover it in silver once upon a time, but that never happened. They should call it Mokukakuji (\u6728\u95a3\u5bfa) or the Wooden Pavilion.<\/p>\n<p>If you ever go visit Ginkakuji, it isn&#8217;t the pavilion that will likely impress you. The Zen sand gardens, ponds, and green gardens are what most tourists are there for. And there are lots of tourists at Ginkakuji. If you must go, make it early in the day. Or, even better, check out the nearby temples on the Philosopher&#8217;s Path instead. They don&#8217;t charge you an arm and a leg to fight the crowds like Ginkakuji does, and, better yet, they are practically empty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Golden Pavilion (\u91d1\u95a3\u5bfa) is gold. Hence the \u91d1 character. So you would think the Silver Pavilion would be silver since it has the \u9280 character. Nope; it&#8217;s all made out of wood. I think the plan was to cover it in silver once upon a time, but that never happened. They should call it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[88,86,16,147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8844,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/8844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}