making it the second-tallest wooden pagoda in Japan after the one at Toji temple in Kyoto. It was originally built in 730 by order of Empress Komyo, and has burned down five times due to lightning ...

Park carpenters created a new spire from a recycled Douglas fir flagpole adorned with traditional bells and an ornamental finial made in Niigata, Japan. The pagoda was built as a temporary indoor ...

17 is sponsored by Kofukuji and The Asahi Shimbun. Temple pagodas are built to enshrine Buddha’s ashes. Kofukuji’s five-story pagoda, which has national treasure status, was erected in 730 at ...

Standing on Baoshi (Precious Stone) Hill on the north bank of West Lake ... pagoda was a mixed structure of brick and wood, but all the wooden parts have been destroyed, leaving only the main body ...

The pagoda was built at the end of the Tang Dynasty in commemoration ... As it stands on an island in the middle of West Lake it is reflected in the water. Mountains faraway serve as background.