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The Silver Pavilion (Ginkakuji). The beautiful grounds at Ginkakuji had the first raked gravel garden we’ve seen, and boy, it’s a doozy. The cone-with-the-top-chopped-off (a conical frustrum, the internet informs me) is around five feet high, and the main bed of gravel is about a foot deep.