desirePlate 146 · Kyoto, Japan

Kinkaku-ji

A gold pavilion rebuilt after a monk burned it, because beauty was not allowed to stay ash.

1397 / 1955 · Ashikaga Yoshimitsu · Asia

The chamber score

Rokudan no Shirabe

Yatsuhashi Kengyō · 17th c.

Gold leaf over still water. Six sections, like the pavilion's own reflections.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The Golden Pavilion, among the most visited temples on earth.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Kinkaku-ji through desire — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Kinkaku-ji was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.