construction of Shitennō-ji. Prince Shōtoku invited three Korean carpenters from Baekje. They brought knowledge and led the construction of Shitennō-ji. The commission...

to construct Shitennō-ji, founds the company. Until the Edo period, Kongō Gumi remains the Miyadaiku for Shitennō-ji. In 593, Shitennō-ji was completed...

until 2000. In 1902, the newly-cast 114-ton Shitennō-ji Temple Bell was hung in Osaka, Japan. The Shitennō-ji Temple Bell reigned as the heaviest functioning...

Tennōji-ku) is one of 24 wards of Osaka, Japan. It is named after the Shitennō-ji, the temple of the Four Heavenly Kings, which is located in the ward...

in 211 CE. Shitennō-ji was first built in 593 CE and the oldest Buddhist temple in Japan. Gallery Sumiyoshi Taisha Grand Shrine Shitennō-ji Remains of...

the Shitennō-ji was built. There is no record, on the other hand, as to who exactly were the people that have engaged in the construction of Hōryū-ji, although...

Guanyin Temple, Dharma Drum Mountain, Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple, Shitennō-ji, Sensō-ji, Kiyomizu-dera, Sanjūsangen-dō, and many others. Guanyin's abode...

entrance of Buddhist temples. Even today, as prominent a temple as Osaka's Shitennō-ji, founded in 593 by Shōtoku Taishi and the oldest state-built Buddhist...

Range (WHS) Mount Kōya – Kongōbu-ji (WHS) Osaka – Osaka Castle, Umeda, Namba, Dōtonbori, Shinsaibashi, Shinsekai, Shitennō-ji, Sumiyoshi-taisha, Universal...

film; it was thought to have been discovered at a flea market at the Shitennō-ji temple in Osaka in 2007, but the discovered film later turned out to...

The Honnō-ji Incident (本能寺の変, Honnō-ji no Hen) was the assassination of Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga at Honnō-ji temple in Kyoto on 21 June 1582 (2nd day...

this trend: they are in chronological order Asuka-dera, Shitennō-ji, Hōryū-ji, and Yakushi-ji. In the first, the pagoda was at the very center of the...

The Four Heavenly Kings of the Tokugawa (徳川四天王, Tokugawa-shitennō) is a Japanese sobriquet describing four highly effective samurai generals who fought...

project to promote Buddhism and he commissioned the construction of Shitennō-ji. The Buddhist temple was built in Settsu Province (present-day Osaka)...

temple priest. Pure Land Buddhism Japanese funeral Japanese sculpture Shitennō-ji 一心寺の定例納骨法要 [The regular burial ceremony at Isshinji] (in Japanese). Osaka...

and lakes near temples are widespread. De Visser lists accounts for Shitennō-ji in Osaka, Gogen Temple in Hakone, Kanagawa, and the shrine on Mount Haku...

Tōfuku-ji's hon-dō Engyō-ji's jiki-dō Yakushi-ji's kairō Tōfuku-ji's kaisan-dō Hōgon-ji's karamon Shitennō-ji's karesansui A katōmado Tōfuku-ji's sanmon...

Cat stars Shōta Sometani as Kūkai. Statue at Shitennō-ji temple Statue at Jizō-ji temple Statue at Kajū-ji temple Statue in Nobeoka, Miyazaki Altar at...

Honno-ji Incident in 1582. Gozen spent her later life with Nobukane at Tsu Castle until her death on 26 February 1594, and is buried at Shitennō-ji located...

"islands" of the immortals. Part of the modern Zen garden at Tōfuku-ji (1940). Shitennō-ji Honbō garden A small garden in the Japanese Tea Garden of Golden...

(794－1185) and the forging method from the Sinto period (1596－1781). Shitennō-ji Shichiseiken [ja], single-edged straight sword, Asuka period Hilts of...

Shitennoji Junior and Senior High School (四天王寺中学校・高等学校, Shitennōji Chūgakkō Kōtōgakkō) is a girls' private junior and senior high school in Tennoji-ku...

Entasis columns at Shitennō-ji, Japan...

inside of the tang (nakago) nie that appears in the ji black gleaming lines of nie that appear in the ji surface grain pattern (jihada) of small ovals and...

Williamsburg, Virginia, feature many heirloom varieties of plants. Shitennō-ji Honbo Garden in Osaka, Osaka prefecture, Japan – an example of a Zen...

Related styles A Chinese paifang A Japanese torii at the entrance of Shitennō-ji, a Buddhist temple in Osaka A Korean hongsalmun A Korean Iljumun Glossary...

quartet of assassins called the Four Evil Heavenly Kings (悪の四天王, Aku no Shitennō). The third movie of Detective Dee, by Tsui Hark, "Detective Dee: The Four...

with 60 patients missing. A five-story pagoda (built in 1812) at the Shitennō-ji temple collapsed, killing 3 people and trapping 20 others. The Sotojima...

the National Treasure Fan-shaped album of the Hokekyō Sutra (Lotus Sutra), Heian period 12th c. CE, currently kept in the Shitennō-ji Temple in Osaka...

Miidera. Another temple crucial in the early development of this cult was Shitennō-ji. Shōmen-Kongō became Kōshin-san when people expected this deity to make...