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    construction of Shitennō-ji. Prince Shōtoku invited three Korean carpenters from Baekje. They brought knowledge and led the construction of Shitennō-ji. The commission...
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    Kongō Gumi (category Shitennō-ji)
    to construct Shitennō-ji, founds the company. Until the Edo period, Kongō Gumi remains the Miyadaiku for Shitennō-ji. In 593, Shitennō-ji was completed...
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  • until 2000. In 1902, the newly-cast 114-ton Shitennō-ji Temple Bell was hung in Osaka, Japan. The Shitennō-ji Temple Bell reigned as the heaviest functioning...
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    Tennōji-ku) is one of 24 wards of Osaka, Japan. It is named after the Shitennō-ji, the temple of the Four Heavenly Kings, which is located in the ward...
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    in 211 CE. Shitennō-ji was first built in 593 CE and the oldest Buddhist temple in Japan. Gallery Sumiyoshi Taisha Grand Shrine Shitennō-ji Remains of...
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    the Shitennō-ji was built. There is no record, on the other hand, as to who exactly were the people that have engaged in the construction of Hōryū-ji, although...
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    this trend: they are in chronological order Asuka-dera, Shitennō-ji, Hōryū-ji, and Yakushi-ji. In the first, the pagoda was at the very center of the...
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    Guanyin Temple, Dharma Drum Mountain, Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple, Shitennō-ji, Sensō-ji, Kiyomizu-dera, Sanjūsangen-dō, and many others. Guanyin's abode...
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    entrance of Buddhist temples. Even today, as prominent a temple as Osaka's Shitennō-ji, founded in 593 by Shōtoku Taishi and the oldest state-built Buddhist...
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    Tōfuku-ji's hon-dō Engyō-ji's jiki-dō Yakushi-ji's kairō Tōfuku-ji's kaisan-dō Hōgon-ji's karamon Shitennō-ji's karesansui A katōmado Tōfuku-ji's sanmon...
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