TO-JI Pagoda Temple

185 $

Description

QR Code Link to This Post BY APPOINTMENT ONLY) Come see my garden for ideas. Free delivery up to 10 miles from 91354 if more can deliver for a fee. Large cement 4'6"×12x12, this beautifully designed lantern will undoubtedly introduce a taste of the Orient into your garden or patio. The style spread throughout east Asia with diverse forms emerging in different countries. This one is made from very durable Portland cement and designed to be displayed outdoors. Pagoda To-ji's famous five-storey pagoda, another National Treasure of Japan, was built from 826 to 883 CE but it has been destroyed by fire no fewer than four times, a couple of times due to lightning strikes. The last rebuilding took place in 1644 CE under the auspices of the Edo shogun Tokugwa Iemitsu. The pagoda, with its internal interlocking structure, has since proved admirably resistant to earthquake damage. It stands around 55 metres (179 ft) tall, making it Japan's tallest wooden pagoda, and, like many other pagodas, it was not simply designed as an architectural highlight of the temple complex but as a repository for important Buddhist relics. The ground floor of the pagoda contains statues of four Buddhas arranged around the central square column and each facing a different direction. The interior walls and column carry paintings of the most important bodhisattvas and the founders of Shingon Buddhism while the foundations are said to contain a relic of the Buddha Shakyamuni that Kukai brought back from his visit to Tang China between 804 and 806 CE. Have other pagoda, lantern, foo dog, buddha, turtles, dragons,fountains  birdbaths  gnomes,  Angel's, saint francis, coyote.