Frozen music – Yakushiji temple
Frozen music - east pagoda
Yakushiji temple is famous for twin pagodas.
The one, East Pagoda was described as “Frozen Music” by Earnest F. Fenollosa.
Its beauty and rhythmically appearance gave him this impression.
He was an American professor of philosophy of Tokyo University and also researcher of Japanese fine arts.
Let’s see how beautiful it is!
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6. Statutes in the Golden Hall >>>go
7. the East Pagoda >>>go
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