Exciting summer vacation in Fukuoka, Tochoji Temple

#Heart-pounding summer vacation

✨️Tochoji✨️ has two famous relics. Rokkakudo and Fukuoka Daibutsu. Rokkakudo (六角堂) consists of six rotating Jizo Bosal statues and an enshrined hall, and is a Buddhist temple with excellent form and function, and is a building designated by Fukuoka City. In 1842, Bungoya Eizo (nickname: Banzairo Sodehiko), who lived in Hakata, raised funds from merchants in the western and lower areas of Nagoya and donated it to Ito Heizaemon, a craftsman of shrine and temple construction in Nagoya. The hexagonal double-glazed gate inside contains writings and drawings by writers and calligraphers of the time. It is open to the public on the 28th of every month. The Fukuoka Great Buddha was sculpted starting in 1988 and completed over the course of four years. It is 10.8 m tall and weighs 30 tons. It is the largest Great Buddha in Japan, a wooden (cypress) seated statue. The 16.1 m high halo (the shape of a flame behind its back) is engraved with the Seven Buddhas and Thirteen Buddhas, and there are 5,000 small Buddha statues on the back wall. It is enshrined. There is also a treasure exhibition room next to it.

🎯2-4 Gokushomachi, Hakata Ward, Fukuoka, 812-0037 Japan

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Post by manul | Aug 12, 2023