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Uploaded on Oct 22, 2010
The images in this video are photos taken between December 2007 and October 2010, in Japan and elsewhere. On the road as life takes one ...
The wood pagoda in Horyuji monastery 法隆寺 in Japan is a national treasure. It was built in the 7th or 8th century based on Chinese and also Korean models.*
In China, however, this style of wood pagoda no longer exists, as Chinese pagoda changed to brick structures instead of wood.
『遺憾的是，這種木塔今天在中國已經沒有一個存在，...在...〔日本人〕的美麗的國土上，還保存下來像奈良〔奈良縣生駒郡斑鳩町〕法隆寺五重塔那種類型以及一些相當完整的佛寺組群。』 — 凝動的音樂 / 粱思成著
(台北: 新新聞, 2000) 頁145
Fortunately, Hong Kong rejuvenated this wood style in the Chi Lin Nunnery which is modeled on monasteries of the Tang dynasty or earlier.
The wood pagoda in Chi Lin Nunnery closely resembles the wood pagoda in Japan, with deep and
wide eaves extending from each storey (出簷深遠). This style — deep eaves (出簷深遠) — gives a feel of elegance not found in brick pagoda.
A good example of the deep-eaves style of wood architecture may be Nanchan Monastery (南禪寺) in Shanxi Province.
The song was converted into digital from a cassette tape played on a cheap Walkman. The sound quality is not as clear as to be expected.
2010年晚秋
________________________ *See 日本美術全集 (東京: 講談社, 1990-1994), vol. 2. 法隆寺から薬師寺へ. — Footnote added in March 2013
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