Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area

Horyu-ji Temple was the first Japanese world heritage website registered back in 1993. Hoki-ji Temple is also registered as a world heritage website.
The core temple, Horyu-ji, was built in the year 607 by Shotoku Taishi (574-622), a politician of that point. Thirty-eight national treasures and 151 vital cultural assets square measure preserved on the temple's large premises, and it's a storehouse of Japanese art; at a similar time it is also called the oldest picket structure within the world. This complex is divided into the Western city district centering on the Kondo (main building) and Goju-no-tou (five-story pagoda) and also the jap city district centering on the Yumedono (dream pavilion). The remarkable feature of this temple is you will see patterns all over during which the Silk Road culture and distinctive Japanese culture square measure subtly and absolutely intermingled.

The Kondo houses precious sculptures together with the "Shaka sanzon-zo"   sculpture choosen in national wealth. The Goju-no-tou standing to the west of the Kondo at 32.6 m high is the oldest picket tower within the world. It has a Japanese roof with a beautifully sinusoidal shallow slope. The term "Tou"  identifies a pyramid on that a fossil of Buddha is placed, and a container for a relic rests in this Goju-no-tou also. On the wall of the first floor there's a sensible, expressively drawn scene of Buddha on his deathbed.

The Yumedono, the central building in the Eastern city district, is an octangular building created in 739 for the motto of holding a memento service for Shotoku Taishi. Inside the construction stands the 178.8-cm-high Guze Kanon-zo statue, considered to be a life-size sketch of Shotoku Taishi. For years, the sculpture has remained wrapped in white fabric as a secret statue of Buddha withheld from public show for spiritual reasons and consequently has suffered nearly no injury over time.