A fragment believed to be part of a lotus petal from the pedestal of the seventh-century statue at Horyuji temple has surfaced in a private art collection, potentially shedding new light on one of ...

IKARUGA, Nara Prefecture—Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung visited Horyuji temple on Jan. 14, a day after playing a BTS song together on the drums. The temple, ...

Tucked away in the northwest corner of the Ueno grounds of the Tokyo National Museum stands the Gallery of Horyuji Treasures, a modern structure with straight lines of glass and steel, fronted by a ...

Priests read sutras ahead of an annual cleanup of Buddhist statues at Horyuji temple, a World Heritage site in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, on Dec. 8, 2021. (Mainichi/Satoshi Hishida) Priests dust down ...

When UNESCO cast its beady, critical eye on Japan 18 years ago to assess the country’s cultural and natural merits with a view — in the agency’s ponderous prose — to “inscription on the World Heritage ...

Monks performed yearend cleaning ritual at Horyuji, a Buddhist temple in Nara, on December 8. The cleaning ritual at the temple began after the temple complex was registered as a UNESCO World Heritage ...

Mitsui, Aioi to begin talks to form Japan's biggest non-life insurer ...

In 1907, however, the company began photographing treasures, including the Buddha statues at Horyuji Temple, for postcards. Since then, the company has photographed cultural properties and printed ...

Architects design buildings, but how do they know their plans won’t collapse? They have structural engineers. What Museum in Shinagawa is presenting part two of Sense of Structure: From Horyuji Temple ...

The annual ritual of dusting Buddha statues takes place at Horyuji, a Buddhist temple registered as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Horyuji, a Buddhist temple in Nara with one of the oldest wooden structures in the world, was struck by a fire in 1949, which severely damaged several 1,300-year-old murals from the Asuka period ...