Keywords
Architecture
Buildings
Structures
Lit. mausoleum pagoda.
1 A pagoda constructed to enshrine a Buddhist image.
2 A five-sectioned stone pagoda *gorintō 五輪塔, built during the Edo period. An example, the early 17th-century byōtō, located in Jigendō 慈眼堂 of Rinnōji 輪王寺 in Tochigi Prefecture, is the tomb of the Buddhist priest Nankōbō Tenkai 南光坊天海 (1536-1643).