Nara’s Golden Hall of the Horyu-ji is completed in 607 as the shrine for two important images associated with Prince Shotoku (the oldest Buddhist temple in Japan, the Horyuji is also believed to be the world’s oldest surviving wooden structure).
“History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it.”
