Horyuji is a Buddhist temple that was once one of the powerful Seven Great Temples, in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture. Horyuji is one of the country's oldest temples and contains the world's oldest surviving wooden structures. It was designated a world heritage site in 1993. These masterpieces of wooden architecture are important not only for the history of art, since they illustrate the adaptation of Chinese Buddhist architecture and layout to Japanese culture, but also for the history of religion, since their construction coincided with the introduction of Buddhism to Japan from China by way of the Korean peninsula.
Unesco: Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area
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Date: April 25
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