First Station : Daylight temple complex
Today we see the sun temple and the temple , including Toshogu, two barren shrine and daylight Rinnoji Temple . In 1991 they were included in the" World Heritage List" , where traditional religious and cultural center of Japan for centuries , has been regarded as sacred, those temples and shrines and buildings within the sculpture represent the Edo period in Japan The highest artistic level.
Toshogu is to create Japan during the period of Tokugawa Ieyasu 's mausoleum . 400 years ago, before the death of Tokugawa Ieyasu , requiring the construction of a second generation of Sub Sun Xiuzhong their family temple . So it Tokugawa Hidetada than 1,200 years of history in the sun round the king Shrine Temple and two adjacent hills , open Toshogu built , and on top of Toshogu Institute for mausoleum built Taiyou .
In fact, the two community a Temple 42 buildings , of which 29 is decorated with various styles of carving patterns , these patterns a total of 5,147 kinds of styles . The importance of Japanese art history from the point of view, the door is indeed very famous Yangming . Almost all of each side of the door decorated with exquisite carvings , there are children playing , the clouds, peony, pine, bamboo ; and Japanese apricot , Phoenix , cranes , ducks ; waterfalls , turtles , elephants, rabbits , etc. And so on; while a pair of tiger fur , Chinese lions and a traditional symbol of royal flag - Long .
early Toshogu built before , because of the two hills of faith , here the formation of a holding Jishan ceremony core areas, Yan Li 9 years (AD 790) , the winning trail in the construction of the palace shrine here , in addition to the existing main hall in the hall outside the building such as the oldest , of the lantern , large country house and other buildings were later expanded .
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