東本願寺（09-05）

This is a rainy day. Our first stop 東本願寺 is under rennovation. At first, I thought the whole building has been taken apart. It turned out that I was able to get into the building. The roof is the part that is under rennovation. The scalfolding has covered the whole building that's giving me the false impression.

I learned that this is the largest wooden structure in the world. There is a rope made of human hair that was used to lift the beams of the building. The building was first built in 1608 (?). In the course of past 400 years, there have been major fires so that the building had to be rebuilt. The current structure was built in 1895.

I was Takamatsu Shin's addition to this complex. It is unlike any other of his designs that we had visited for the past few days.