Example sentences for: horyuji

How can you use “horyuji” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Also in the eastern compound is the Daihozoden (Great Treasure Hall), housing Horyuji’s magnificent collection of Buddhist art, among Japan’s finest.

  • Surprisingly, Horyuji also contains a building dedicated to a foreigner: Langdon Warner, a Harvard art professor whom the Japanese have mistakenly credited with saving both Nara and Kyoto from aerial bombing during World War II.

  • Horyuji was actually built decades after Prince Shotoku’s death in 622.

  • Horyuji was built by craftsmen imported from Korea, and the temple bears much of their distinctive artistic stamp.

  • This contains Horyuji’s five-storied pagoda and the Kondo (main hall), built around 670 and the world’s oldest wooden building.


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