46/64
Home / Keyword doors /

Tōdai-ji temple gates

20240609_100234.jpg Tōdai-ji temple gatesThumbnailsTōdai-ji UrasandoTōdai-ji temple gatesThumbnailsTōdai-ji UrasandoTōdai-ji temple gatesThumbnailsTōdai-ji UrasandoTōdai-ji temple gatesThumbnailsTōdai-ji Urasando

One of the two guards (Ni-ō) in the Nandai-mon gates (1203).
The statue, built by the sculptors Unkei and Kaikei, is over 8 m tall.
During the restaurations in 1988 they found documents and sutras within the sculptures.

Author
Mojca Vilfan
Visits
1046

0 comments