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A new style termed wayō (和様, Japanese style) emerged with the following characteristics: a main hall divided in two parts; an outer area for novices and an inner area for initiates; a hip-and-gable roof that covered both areas; a raised wooden floor instead of the tile or stone floors of earlier temples; extended eaves to cover the front ...
The only temple known from historical records such as the Nihon Shoki which corresponds is the Kudara-no-Ōdera (百済大寺) (the predecessor of Daian-ji), which was built by the 34th Emperor Jomei in 639. The site of "Kudara-no-Ōdera", which was one of the first Buddhist temples constructed in Japan, had up until this time been considered ...
One of the historical events the shrine is tied to is the assassination of Sanetomo, last of Minamoto no Yoritomo's sons. Under heavy snow on the evening of February 12, 1219 (Jōkyū 1, 26th day of the 1st month), [note 2] shōgun Minamoto no Sanetomo was coming down from Tsurugaoka Hachimangū's Senior Shrine after assisting to a ceremony celebrating his nomination to Udaijin. [2]
The Nakadera temple ruins (中寺廃寺跡, Nakadera haiji ato) is an archaeological site with the ruins of a Heian period Buddhist temple located in the town of Mannō, Kagawa Prefecture, on the island of Shikoku, Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 2008. [1]
Sanjūsangen-dō was founded by the famous samurai and politician Taira no Kiyomori (1118-1181) in 1164 for the cloistered Emperor Go-Shirakawa. [1] [2] He built the temple in the emperor's own compound Hōjūji-dono in order to gain a noble title, that of Chancellor of the Realm, becoming the first samurai to do so.
The temple also administers the Taiyū-in Reibyō (大猷院霊廟), which is the mausoleum of Tokugawa Iemitsu (1604–1651), the third Tokugawa shōgun. [8] Technically a shinto shrine , it was built in 1653 in the Gongen-zukuri style and it is designated a National Treasure of Japan in that category.
Kadawatha (or Kadawata) (Sinhala: කඩවත Tamil: கடவத) is a large suburb of Gampaha, in the Western Province, Sri Lanka.It is situated on the A1 highway, approximately 16 km (9.9 mi) away from the centre of Colombo.
Gangō-ji (元興寺) was one of the first Buddhist temples in Japan, and was ranked as one of the powerful Seven Great Temples, in Nara, Japan. It was mostly destroyed in the Muromachi period and the old town of Naramachi occupies most of what was once the temple's precincts. Three small portions of the temple have survived to the present day ...