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Kondō (golden hall), Tōshōdaiji

Artwork · Anonymous · 759 · building · Tōshōdai-ji Temple

The golden hall of Tōshōdaiji, seven bays wide and four deep, the best example of building at the end of the Nara period: long and low, with three-stepped brackets and a simple hipped roof — raised by 2.5 m in the Edo period. Inside the Birushana Buddha, Tōshōdaiji between the Thousand-armed Kannon, Tōshōdaiji and the Yakushi, Tōshōdaiji. 1 Mason 2005, p. 71, fig. 83. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.