After interviewing Egami, I reread the novel "Kinkakuji" (The Temple of the Golden Pavilion) by Yukio Mishima (1925-1970). The author's take is that the young monk must have been totally bewitched ...

For this Kyoto edition, we independently scoped out more than 350 venues and distilled the list down to the very best of the ...

Originally, Kinkakuji Temple was a mountain villa ... After Yoshimitsu’s death, Muso Soseki founded a zen temple there. During the Onin War, most of the halls were lost in a fire, but the pavilion ...

As part of nationwide civil defence preparedness during Operation Sindoor, the iconic Golden Temple in Amritsar went dark temporarily during a coordinated mock drill.

The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has removed the ghumatis or kiosk minars that the Sikh seminary Damdami Taksal had erected at the martyrdom site of Baba Deep Singh on the Golden ...

This museum is centered around the “Man’yoshu” collection of ancient poetry. Exhibitions rooms introduce how people lived at the time through videos and dioramas. Visitors can also experience the ...