Architecture
Buddhism exerted tremendous influence on Japanese art in a variety of ways and through many periods of Japanese history. Buddhist temples with their halls and five story towers were built all over Japan, and huge sculptures of Buddha were made for these temples.
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“No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)
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—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
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