However, according to people from the time, the old Kinkakuji was plain and showed little gold with most of it worn and beaten, looking little like the current one which is gold and magnificent.
ただ当時の関係者によると、焼失直前の旧金閣はほとんど金箔の剥げ落ちた簡素な風情で、現在のように金色に光る豪華なものではなかったという。