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Daibutsuden (Great Buddha Hall), Tōdaiji

Artwork · Anonymous · 758 · building · Tōdai-ji Temple

The hall of the Tōdai-ji Daibutsu at the heart of Tōdaiji, the temple Shōmu founded as the head of all provincial temples. The first hall was eleven bays long and seven deep, larger than the imperial audience hall; it burnt to the ground in 1180 in the Genpei War and was rebuilt at once. 1 Mason 2005, p. 68, fig. 78. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.