is an historic temple in
Bungotakada,
Ōita Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Ōita Prefecture has a population of 1,081,646 (1 February 2025) and has a geographic area of 6,340 km2 (2,448 sq mi). Ōita Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the northwest, K ...
,
Japan
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. The current buildings are the
Edo-period
The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...
Hondō
Main hall or Main Temple is the building within a Japanese Buddhist monastery compound ('' garan'') which enshrines the main object of veneration.Kōjien Japanese dictionary Because the various denominations deliberately use different terms, thi ...
and an exhibition hall dating to 1955. Inside are nine
Heian-period statues
A statue is a free-standing sculpture in which the realistic, full-length figures of persons or animals are carved or cast in a durable material such as wood, metal or stone. Typical statues are life-sized or close to life-size. A sculpture ...
that have been designated
Important Cultural Properties.
Statues
* Seated wooden statue of
Amida Nyorai
Amida can mean :
Places and jurisdictions
* Amida (Mesopotamia), now Diyarbakır, an ancient city in Asian Turkey; it is (nominal) seat of:
** The Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Amida
** The Latin titular Metropolitan see of Amida of the Ro ...
(
Gohonzon
is a generic term for a venerated religious object in Japanese Buddhism. It may take the form of a scroll or statuary. The term typically refers to the mainstream use of venerated objects within Nichiren Buddhism, referring to the calligrap ...
)
* Wooden statue of
Daiitoku Myōō seated on a cow
* Triad of
Fudō Myōō
or Achala (, "The Immovable", ), also known as (, "Immovable Lord") or (, "Noble Immovable Lord"), is a wrathful deity and '' dharmapala'' (protector of the Dharma) prominent in Vajrayana Buddhism and East Asian Buddhism., Jp. rel. dict., ...
*
Four Guardian Kings
The Four Heavenly Kings are four Buddhist gods or ''devas'', each of whom is believed to watch over one cardinal direction of the world. The Hall of Four Heavenly Kings is a standard component of Chinese Buddhist temples.
Names
The Kings a ...
See also
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Japanese sculpture
Sculpture in Japan began with the clay figure. Towards the end of the long Neolithic Jōmon period, "flame-rimmed" pottery vessels had sculptural extensions to the rim, and very stylized pottery dogū figures were produced, many with the charac ...
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Fuki-ji
*
Kumano magaibutsu
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Ōita Prefectural Museum of History
The opened in Usa, Ōita, Usa, Ōita Prefecture, Japan in 1998, replacing the of 1981. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefecture.
The collection is organised around themes including life and ancient Buddhism in Toy ...
References
External links
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Maki Ōdō(homepage)
Buddhist temples in Oita Prefecture
Important Cultural Properties of Japan
Oita Prefecture designated tangible cultural property
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