Artworks

Amidadō (Hondō), Jōruriji

Artwork · Anonymous · 1107 · building · Jōruri-ji Temple

The only one of the more than thirty halls for nine Amida images built in the Insei period — the age of the retired emperors from Emperor Shirakawa on — that survives intact; first built in 1107 and moved to the present site of Jōruri-ji Temple in 1157. On the west bank of an artificial lake, it recalls a shinden-zukuri mansion with its black lattice and white paper-panelled interior. A central moya nine bays long and one deep, the central bay twice as wide for the larger main image; no ceiling, the sloping beams left exposed. Its cypress-bark roof was replaced with tiles in the Edo period. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 150–151, fig. 181. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.