After the Onin War, the eighth Shogun Yoshimasa built a villa in Higashiyama, Kyoto (Kyoto Prefecture), where he constructed a silver pavilion after the example of his grandfather Yoshimitsu.
8代将軍義政は、応仁の乱後、京都の東山(京都府)に山荘をつくり、そこに祖父義満にならって銀閣を建てた。