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The octagonal hall, which is the main hall of the Horyu-ji East Temple complex, is said to have been built by the monk Gyoshin in honor of Prince Shotoku's virtues in the 11th year of the Tenpyo era (739). The roof's jewel and the platform resemble the reliquary tower on the west side of the first layer of the five-story pagoda, leading to the theory that it is the mausoleum of Prince Shotoku. The principal image in the altar, the Kannon of Salvation (National Treasure), is a single piece of camphor wood, an Asuka Buddha covered in lacquer, and is said to be a life-sized statue of Prince Shotoku. It is said to have been thickly wrapped in white cloth as a secret Buddha, and both the halo and pedestal are almost undamaged. In the 17th year of the Meiji era (1884), the full form of the statue was revealed by the American Fenollosa and Okakura Tenshin. The altar of the Kannon of Salvation is specially opened every spring and autumn.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":20583,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285247","travelpost","type-travelpost","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spot"],"acf":[],"permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/travelpost\/285247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/travelpost"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/travelpost"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/travelpost\/285247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}