Niou-mon gate
Omizuya water house
Nitenmon gate
Yashamon gate
Karamon gate
Haiden Oratory
Ainoma middle room
Honden main hall
Last instruction and sword
Koukamon gate
Okunoin inner house
Historical relics
Shinkyo bridge-Takinoo shrine

*Honden (Main Hall)


Honden main hall
Looking at from the Ainoma middle room, which has a painting of phoenix on the ceiling.



Honden main room is located next to the narrow Ainoma room, but the Honden is not open to the public. Many skills are applied to this building because the principal image is enshrined there.

Size of the building is 10 square meters. It is smaller than Haiden, but has a deep structure.

Inside the hall, many sculptures are decorated. The Honden also is called Kinkakuden (Golden Hall) because of rich gold color.

Also, there is Gokuden Hall in front, and image of Buddha is hidden inside. In deep right, memorial tablets of successive Shogun are put in a line.

There are plenty of sculpture such as giraffe, scrollwork of peony, gold dragon, and two-headed rhinoceros. The Honden is luxurious because of its importance.



Corridor of Honden is called "Torizukushino-kairou (Corridor of fullness of bird)."

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Images of pigeon are carved on the transom of the corridor.



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