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Five-storied pagoda, Hōryūji

Artwork · Anonymous · 7th century · building · Hōryū-ji Temple

The pagoda beside the golden hall of Hōryūji: the fifth storey is about half as wide as the first, which gives the tower its lightness and stability. A heart pillar rises from a foundation stone holding relics to the bronze finial with nine rings. On its ground floor the Clay tableaux in the five-storied pagoda, Hōryūji of 711. 1 Mason 2005, p. 64, fig. 72. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.