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Byodo-In Temple Oahu Ceramic Art Tile
$22.00
A vermilion-roofed replica below the green wall of the Ko'olau, in the Valley of the Temples on the windward side of Oahu. The original, the Byōdō-in at Uji, has stood since 1052. This one was built in 1968, a hundred years after the Scioto brought the first 153 Japanese immigrants from Yokohama to Honolulu in 1868. The grounds hold two acres of koi ponds, a bamboo grove, peacocks, and a three-ton brass bell that visitors are invited to ring. The cliff behind it does most of the work. The temple holds still beneath it.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.