Sumiyoshi Taisha Shrine 住吉大社

  • Published on : 20/01/2015
  • by : E.P.
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National, purely national treasure

With an architecture free of any continental influence, the buildings of the Sumiyoshi Taisha illustrate the religious of old, a time when Buddhism from China had not yet influenced the Japanese style.


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