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Shitenn\u014d-ji was founded in 593 by Prince Sh\u014dtoku, the statesman who brought Buddhism to the heart of Japanese government, and it is regarded as Japan's first state-sponsored Buddhist temple. Fourteen centuries of fires, typhoons, wars and rebuildings have not moved it from its original plan: a straight stone path runs from the great south gate through a five-story pagoda to the golden hall, exactly as it did in the sixth century. It is at once a monument, a working temple and, twice a month, the liveliest market in Osaka.","bloc_image_1":1698,"bloc_text_2":"","titre_2":"A Prince's Vow on the Battlefield","bloc_text_3":"Shitenn\u014d-ji was born out of war. In the sixth century, Buddhism was still new to Japan and fiercely contested: the pro-Buddhist Soga clan faced the anti-Buddhist Mononobe clan, and Prince Sh\u014dtoku stood with the Soga. Before a decisive battle, tradition says, he carved images of the Shitenn\u014d, the Four Heavenly Kings who guard the Buddhist world \u2014 Jikoku-ten in the east, Z\u014dch\u014d-ten in the south, K\u014dmoku-ten in the west and Tamon-ten, also called Bishamon-ten, in the north \u2014 and vowed that if he won, he would build a temple to honour them and save all people. He won, and in 593, the first year of Empress Suiko's reign, the temple rose in Naniwa, the port city that would become Osaka. Sh\u014dtoku invited three master carpenters from the Korean kingdom of Baekje to lead the work, and one member of that original building team later founded Kong\u014d Gumi, a temple-building firm that survived for over 1,400 years as the world's oldest company until 2004. The prince's ambition went beyond prayer: around the seven-building garan he set up the Shika-in, the Four Institutions \u2014 a school of religion and education, a welfare house, a hospital and a pharmacy \u2014 so the temple would care for the people's bodies and minds alike. Three of the four are known to have still existed in the Kamakura period. After the Second World War the temple left the Tendai school and became the head temple of its own Wa sect, but its founding idea has never changed: a temple built by the state, for everyone.","bloc_image_2":1697,"bloc_text_4":"","titre_4":"A Straight Line to Paradise \u2014 and Osaka's Biggest Flea Market","bloc_text_5":"The layout itself is the treasure. Architectural historians call it the \u00ab Shitenn\u014d-ji style \u00bb: from south to north, in a single straight line enclosed by covered corridors, stand the inner gate (Ch\u016bmon, also the Ni\u014dmon), the five-story pagoda, the Kond\u014d golden hall and the K\u014dd\u014d lecture hall \u2014 the oldest temple arrangement in Japan. The Kond\u014d holds the temple's principal image, Prince Sh\u014dtoku himself honoured as Kannon, bodhisattva of compassion, flanked by statues of the Four Heavenly Kings to whom the temple is dedicated. In the K\u014dd\u014d, where Sh\u014dtoku is said to have lectured on the Lotus Sutra, stand an Eleven-Headed Kannon and a seated Amida Buddha six metres high. Walk west and you pass the Great West Gate, the Gokuraku-mon or \u00ab Gate of Paradise \u00bb, and beyond it a stone torii imagined as the eastern gate of Sukhavati, the Pure Land of the West \u2014 sunset here is said to be especially beautiful. In the Kameido hall, look for the seventh-century turtle-shaped stonework, still used in rites honouring ancestors. The present buildings are mostly from the last complete reconstruction, finished in 1963 after the 1934 Muroto typhoon levelled the pagoda, but they faithfully follow the sixth-century plan. Come on the 21st or 22nd of any month and the mood changes completely: the Daishi-e memorial of K\u014db\u014d Daishi (21st) and the Taishi-e memorial of Prince Sh\u014dtoku himself (22nd) turn the grounds into Osaka's biggest flea market, hundreds of stalls selling antiques, kimono cloth, ceramics and street food, with the central precinct open free of charge. The temple is five minutes from Shitennoji-mae Yuhigaoka Station on the Tanimachi Line, or fifteen minutes from Tenn\u014dji Station. Before you leave, stop at the temple office: an omamori from Shitenn\u014d-ji \u2014 for protection under the Four Heavenly Kings, or for health, in the spirit of the hospital and pharmacy the prince founded beside the halls \u2014 carries home a little of Japan's oldest act of public faith.","bloc_image_3":1699,"bloc_text_6":"","titre_picto_1":"Construction","text_picto_1":"Founded in 593 by Prince Sh\u014dtoku; present buildings from the 1963 reconstruction, following the original 6th-century plan","titre_picto_2":"Divinity","text_picto_2":"The Four Heavenly Kings (Shitenn\u014d), with Prince Sh\u014dtoku honoured as Kannon in the Kond\u014d","titre_picto_3":"Religion","text_picto_3":"Buddhism \u2014 Wa-sh\u016b (head temple since independence after World War II); Japan's first state-sponsored temple","titre_picto_4":"Location","text_picto_4":"1-11-18 Shitenn\u014dji, Tenn\u014dji-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Kansai, Japan"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast 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