Japanese woman finishing praying at a Yakushiji temple Incense smoke in the foreground Nara Japan
Japanese woman finishing praying at a Nara shrine Incense smoke in the foreground Nara Japan Nara was the capital of Japan from 710 to 784 During this period the framework of national government was consolidated and Nara enjoyed great prosperity emerging as the fountainhead of Japanese culture The city s historic monuments Buddhist temples Shinto shrines and the excavated remains of the great Imperial Palace provide a vivid picture of life in the Japanese capital in the 8th century a period of profound political and cultural change Yakushiji was constructed by Emperor Temmu in the late 7th century for the recovery of the emperor s sick wife One of Japan s oldest temples Yakushiji has a strictly symmetric Chinese style layout with the main and lecture halls standing on a central axis flanked by two pagodas The main hall was rebuilt in the 1970s after being destroyed by fire and houses the Yakushi trinity a masterpiece of Japanese Buddhist art The east pagoda is the temple s only structure to have survived the many fires and dates from 730 It appears to have six stories but is in fact three storied like the west pagoda
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