Ancient Wooden Pagoda - Ueno Park, Tokyo
by Yvonne Johnstone
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Ancient Wooden Pagoda - Ueno Park, Tokyo
Artist
Yvonne Johnstone
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Photograph - Photography
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Ancient wooden 5 storey Pagoda, Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan.
Ueno Park was formerly the temple grounds of Toeizan Kan'eiji Temple.
The Buddhist temple, founded to pray for security both for the Tokugawa Shogunate and its people all over Japan, had a lot of buildings in its prime and the five-story pagoda is one of the remaining buildings.
First built in 1631 and rebuilt in 1639, the pagoda is 36 meters high from the ground to the hoju (uppermost spherical part) and has a five-tiered structure. The roof of the fifth and uppermost floor is covered in copper sheets while the rest of the roofs are in Japanese traditional ceramic tiles. In each corner of the first floor, Buddha, Bhaisajyaguru, Amitabha, and Maitreya statues are enshrined.
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October 13th, 2020
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