After the Onin war, most of the buildings have been burned within the Kinkaku-ji, only the main relic temple buildings have survived, becoming the only architectural sites Kitayama culture, which before the war by the Japanese government as a national treasure. Showa 25(1950 A.D), a 21-year-old trainee monk Lin Chengxian try to self-immolation and successfully ignite the temple, fire completely destroyed all remain building, even include the house of worship of national treasures, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu’s statue as also with ashes. Japanese writer Mishima Yukio was write novel named "five-fold cho evening fog House," and Minakami Tsutomu‘s "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" all had this event as background.