銀閣寺　Ginkaku-ji (Temple of the Silver Pavilion) is the more common name for Jisho-ji.  The pavilion and the garden were part of the retirement villa of Ashikaga Yoshimasa, the eighth Shogun of the Muromachi Period.

This villa, on the eastern foothills bordering Kyoto, became the center of the Japanese aesthetic while Ashikaga Yoshimasa lived there.