Just when you're thinking the temples are all starting to look the same, along comes Kinkaku-ji to shake things up. This was built again as a retirement home for a shogun in 1393. This time, the shogun couldn't devote himself full time to the usual moongazing and teamaking because his ten year old son had succeeded him, and presumably the ten year old needed a bit of help now and then. Especially because during that time there was a civil war, and famine and plague in Kyoto. An estimated 1,000 people a day died in the city due to these problems, so it was quite a handful to bequeath to the ten year old.