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ID: 1100167
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1100167

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Hōryūji (temple)  Hōryūji (temple)

Coordinates:
Lat: 34 36 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 34.6000  decimal degrees
Long: 135 44 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 135.7333  decimal degrees

Note: Temple complex containing some of the oldest intact buddhist structures in Japan; complex divided into eastern and western precincts; named an UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1993.

Names:
Hōryūji (preferred,C,V)
Hōryūji Temple (C,V)
Hōryū Gakumonji (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Nihon (nation)  ........  Nihon (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Nara (prefecture)  ............  Nara (prefecture) (P)
Hierarchy of Hōryūji (temple)  ................  Hōryūji (temple) (P)

Place Types:
temple (preferred, C)  ............  beginning ca. 607
ancient site (C)
World Heritage Site (C)  ............  1993

Sources and Contributors:
Hōryū Gakumonji..........  [VP]
.............................  Grove Art Online (2008-) accessed 15 July 2010
Hōryūji..........  [VP]
.................  Library of Congress Subject Headings (2002-)
Hōryūji Temple..........  [VP Preferred]
.............................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-73
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-73
..................  UNESCO World Heritage Centre [online] (1992-) accessed 15 July 2010
..................  Young and Young, The Art of Japanese (2007) 44-49
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  UNESCO World Heritage Centre [online] (1992-) accessed 15 July 2010
..........  Young and Young, The Art of Japanese (2007) 44-46

 

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