Sanjūsangen-dō, Kyoto
Title: the temple of the ten thousand idols in Japan.
Media: engraving after Picart, Bernard (1673-1733).
Production date: c.1860.
Size: 27,3x18,5 cms.; Description: A lithography showing Sanjūsangen-dō (三十三間堂) a Buddhist temple in Higashiyama District of Kyoto, Japan (with 1000 Kannon statues) during the Edo period.; Background:
Sanjūsangen-dō (三十三間堂, thirty-three ken hall) is a Buddhist temple of the Tendai sect in the Higashiyama district of Kyoto, Japan.; The temple was founded in 1164 by Taira no Kiyomori for the cloistered Emperor Go-Shirakawa. It is officially known as Rengeō-in (蓮華王院, hall of the Lotus King) and belongs to the Myōhō-in temple complex.; Sanjūsangen-dō is most famous for its massively long hondō (main hall) dating from 1266 (Kamakura period) and designated a National Treasure of Japan, and the collection of sculptures it houses, including 1001 standing Thousand-armed Kannon, 28 standing attendants, a statue of Fūjin and a statue of Raijin, and the principal image of the temple, a big seated statue of Thousand-armed Kannon, all of them designated National Treasures in the category of sculptures, most of them dating to the Heian to Kamakura periods.; Part of the temple was lost in a fire in the early 13th century. But it was reconstructed during 1266 and for the past over 750 years it is standing there as a testimony for impeccable strength of the traditional Japanese architecture. As there are 33 spaces between the columns that hold this mammoth structure, the temple is called “sanjusangen-do” (a hall with thirty three spaces between columns).

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