SHORT SKETCH OF THE TEMPLE: 
BUILDINGS AND THE GARDEN. 
jiNKAKUji, or properly Jishoji, was formerly 
a mansion of Ashikaga Yoshimasa, bu'lt 
by him in 1483, after his abdication of 
the Shogun’s dignity. Here he spent his last nine 
years in luxury, at practising many kinds of forms 
and ceremonies,— of tea-making, incense-burning, 
flower-arrangement, tray-landscape, and moreover, 
of garden-designing and curio-appreciating — each 
of which his patronage elevated almost to the 
rank of a fine art. After his demise, this mansion 
was converted into a Buddhistic temple by his 
will. 
The apartments of the Hondo , or main 
temple, which are first shown to the visitor, have 
paper screens painted by two famous artists of 
the later Tokugawa period, Buson and Taigado. 
Many beautiful paintings by celebrated Japanese 
and Chinese artists, such as Kose Kanaoka, 
Sesshu, Soami, Gesshu, &c., each in a form of 
Kakemono^ with a few lacquer and porcelain wares, 
and other precious art-works, adorn these rooms. 
Next building to be shown is Togudo , which 
shows the characteristic style of architecture of 
Ashikaga period, remaining as Yoshimasa first 
built it. Here in an inner room stands an wooden 
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image of the Shogun in priestly robes — he 
became a monk in 1485. That the image was 
carved by his own hand, as the tradition goes, 
is not certain, bnt the excellence of its work- 
manship is so striking that it was enlisted among 
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