Great Treasure Gallery 大宝蔵院

Official explanation

The Great Treasure Gallery was built in 1998. Inside the two buildings that make up the gallery are statues of the young Prince Shotoku (574–622), along with many other important artifacts.

The Gallery contains two unusual Buddhist altars. One is the Tamamushi no zushi, named from the tamamushi beetle wings used to cover its surface. The other is the Tachibana altar, named after its owner, Lady Tachibana. Inside the Lady Tachibana altar-shrine that dates from the Hakuho era (673–683), is a seated bronze statue of Amida flanked by bodhisattvas standing on lotus blossoms.

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Source: Japan Tourism Agency, Multilingual Explanation Database. This English text was produced by the Japan Tourism Agency's multilingual explanation project and is shown unedited. Opening hours and services may have changed since it was written.