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By 1568, when Kyoto was at last seized from the Ashikaga shogunate, three ruthless generals — Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa — had banded together to eliminate all remaining opposition.
The Ashikaga shoguns and their samurai were greatly attracted by an essentially anti-intellectual doctrine that transmitted its truth from master to disciple by practical example rather than scholarly study of texts.
Eventually, the Ashikaga family shoguns settled down in Kyoto’s Muromachi district, which gave its name to the new creative period that followed.
The original late-14th-century pavilion, completely covered in gold leaf, was typical of the unrestrained opulence of the Muromachi period favored by Shogun Yoshimitsu Ashikaga, who had it built for his retirement at the ripe old age of 38.
He was also a master of the art of conspicuous consumption, contrasting sharply with the restraint shown by the Ashikaga shoguns in their more subtle displays of wealth.