Silver Pavilion

E288953

The Silver Pavilion is the iconic main hall of Kyoto’s Ginkaku-ji temple, renowned for its understated Zen aesthetics and influence on Japanese art and culture.

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Label Occurrences
Silver Pavilion canonical 3

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Buddhist temple building
historic building
affiliation Rinzai
surface form: Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism
architecturalStyle Japanese Zen temple architecture
Muromachi-period architecture
associatedWith Japanese tea culture
Zen
surface form: Zen Buddhism

landscape gardening
cityDistrict Sakyo-ku, Kyoto
country Japan
culturalSignificance iconic landmark of Kyoto
symbol of Higashiyama culture
dedicatedTo Kannon
era Muromachi period
function main hall of Ginkaku-ji
hasFeature view over dry sand garden
view over moss garden
hasJapaneseName 観音殿
銀閣
hasNameOrigin named in contrast to the Golden Pavilion
hasSetting foothills of Kyoto’s eastern mountains
heritageStatus part of Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto
influenced Higashiyama culture
Japanese aesthetics
Japanese garden design
Japanese tea ceremony aesthetics
inspiredBy Golden Pavilion
knownFor harmonious integration with surrounding gardens
influence on Japanese art and culture
understated Zen aesthetics
wabi-sabi aesthetic
locatedIn Ginkaku-ji
Japan
Kyoto
Kyoto Prefecture
material wood
partOf Ginkaku-ji
surface form: Ginkaku-ji temple complex
religion Buddhism
roofType traditional Japanese roof
surroundedBy carefully raked sand garden
pond
temple gardens
tourism major tourist attraction
UNESCOListingIncludes Ginkaku-ji
UNESCOWorldHeritageSite yes

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Silver Pavilion
Description of subject: The Silver Pavilion is the iconic main hall of Kyoto’s Ginkaku-ji temple, renowned for its understated Zen aesthetics and influence on Japanese art and culture.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ginkaku-ji hasMainHall Silver Pavilion
Ginkaku-ji hasFeature Silver Pavilion
Ginkaku-ji isFamousFor Silver Pavilion