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Hōryū-ji (Japanese: 法隆寺, Hepburn: Temple of the Flourishing Dharma) is a Buddhist temple that was once one of the powerful Seven Great Temples, located in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan. Built shortly after Buddhism was introduced to Japan, it is also one of the oldest Buddhist sites in the country.
The kondo, also known as the Golden Hall is located within the gates of the Horyuji temple complex. The structure sits near the center next to the Horyuji Pagoda. The two structures are significant, yet for very different reasons. The Kondo was built with the intention of being used for Buddhist worship. [2]
The Tachibana Shrine (橘夫人厨子, Tachibana-fujin no zushi), also referred to as the Lady Tachibana Shrine, is a miniature shrine owned by the Hōryū-ji temple complex of Nara Prefecture, Japan. Its precise date of construction is unknown, but it is thought to have been created a little later than its counterpart the Tamamushi Shrine.
Whether the statue was an image at Yamada-dera before its transfer to Hōryū-ji remains uncertain. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] During the Meiji era in 1878, the Imperial Household Agency acquired 319 artifacts from Hōryū-ji, including the Amida Triad, whereupon it got transferred over to the Tokyo National Museum collection, receiving its designation as N-144.
The precise date of the shrine is uncertain, but it is generally placed around the middle of the seventh century. [2] A terminus ante quem is provided by the first documentary evidence for its existence, an inventory in temple records dating to 747, which includes "two items taking the form of a palace building, one with a design of a Thousand Buddhas in repoussé metalwork" (宮殿像弐具 ...
Left image: The three-story pagoda of Hokki-ji temple, built in 706 at the end of the Asuka period Right image:The five-storied Japanese pagoda of Hōryū-ji temple, built in the early 7th century (temple was founded in 607; carbon dating of the pagoda's wooden components proves that they were felled as far back as 594) [5]
Portrait of Tsunekazu Nishioka Yakushi-ji, Saitō, West Pagoda. Tsunekazu Nishioka (西岡常一 Nishioka Tsunekazu, 4 September 1908 – 11 April 1995) was a highly respected miyadaiku (宮大工), a temple and shrine carpenter, and the Tōryō (棟梁, master carpenter) of Japanese Buddhist temple and Shinto shrine buildings.
Horyu-ji Ikaruga ( 斑鳩町 , Ikaruga-chō ) is a town in Ikoma District, Nara , Japan. As of 31 December 2024 [update] , the town had an estimated population of 28,036 in 12,292 households, and a population density of 2000 persons per km 2 . [ 1 ]