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  2. Tōdai-ji - Wikipedia

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    The existing Nandaimon (Great South Gate) was constructed at the end of the 12th century based on Daibutsuyō style, after the original gate was destroyed by a typhoon during the Heian period. The dancing figures of the Nio , the two 8.5-metre-tall (28 ft) guardians at the Nandaimon, were built around the same time by the artists Unkei , Kaikei ...

  3. Isui-en - Wikipedia

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    View of Isui-en Garden during early fall, towards the Nandaimon gate, and hills of Nara One of the tea houses A path through the garden moss. Isui-en (依水園, Isuien) is a Japanese garden located in Nara, the old capital of Japan near Kyōto.

  4. Daibutsuyō - Wikipedia

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    Of his work at the temple only three structures remain, the already mentioned Nandaimon, which remains the best Daibutsuyō example, the Kaizandō and the Hokkedō. [2] The gate's most characteristic features are the six-tier bracket groups projecting directly out of the columns and connected to each other by ties as long as the facade. [2]

  5. List of Cultural Properties of Tōdai-ji - Wikipedia

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    Hokke-dō north gate (法華堂北門) [22] 1240: four-post, kirizuma-zukuri, tiled-roof: ICP: Repository 本坊経庫 honbōkyōko [23] 710-793: 3x2 bay, azekura, yosemune-zukuri, tiled-roof: NT: Shingon'in kanjōdō 東大寺真言院灌頂堂 Tōdai-ji Shingon'in kanjōdō [24] 1649 & following: Prefectural: Shingon'in front gate ...

  6. List of National Treasures of Japan (temples) - Wikipedia

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    The Nandaimon at Tōdai-ji and the Amida Hall at Jōdo-ji are the only extant examples of this style. [ 10 ] [ 27 ] [ 28 ] Characteristics of the Zen style are earthen floors, subtly curved pent roofs ( mokoshi ) and pronouncedly curved main roofs, cusped windows and panelled doors.

  7. Zutō - Wikipedia

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    The monument is 1.5 kilometers due south of Tōdai-ji's Nandaimon gate and 1.7 kilometers southeast of Kintetsu Nara Station. A structure similar to the Zutō is the Dotō in the city of Sakai, Osaka .

  8. Japanese Buddhist architecture - Wikipedia

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    Japanese Buddhist architecture is the architecture of Buddhist temples in Japan, consisting of locally developed variants of architectural styles born in China. [1] After Buddhism arrived from the continent via the Three Kingdoms of Korea in the 6th century, an effort was initially made to reproduce the original buildings as faithfully as possible, but gradually local versions of continental ...

  9. Unkei - Wikipedia

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    Many extant works are said to be his, but the first that can be attributed to him with any certainty is a Dainichi Nyorai at Enjō-ji in Nara (1176).. Unkei was a devout Buddhist, and records from 1183 (Heian period end) show that he transcribed two copies of the Lotus Sutra with the aid of two calligrapher monks and a woman sponsor named Akomaro. [3]