Arson of the Kinkaku-ji
金閣寺放火事件
Event · fire · 2 July 1950 · Kyoto, Japan
The original Golden Pavilion was set alight and completely destroyed in 1950 by an acolyte protesting the commercialization of Buddhism after the Second World War1, in the early morning of 2 July 19502. It was rebuilt3. Mason 2005, pp. 226–227. ↩ Wikipedia, 金閣寺放火事件, 「1950年（昭和25年）7月2日未明に…鹿苑寺（通称・金閣寺）で発生した放火事件」. ↩ Mason 2005, pp. 228–229. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005. Wikipedia, 金閣寺放火事件: Anon., 金閣寺放火事件, in: ウィキペディア日本語版, https://ja.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E9%87%91%E9%96%A3%E5%AF%BA%E6%94%BE%E7%81%AB%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6&oldid=111446584 (zuletzt abgerufen am 31.10.2026).