Rokkakudo
Hexagonal hall roofed in turtle-shell tiles, with a rotating altar built for illiterate worshippers.
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About this audio guide
This guide traces how a Hakata pharmacist named Toyoshiroya Eizo, flush with money from patent medicines, paid in 1842 to raise a six-sided hall roofed almost entirely in turtle-shell tiles. He brought in a Nagoya carpenter from a long line of temple builders to construct it around an unusual centerpiece: a hexagonal cabinet that turns, carrying six carved images past the doorway. Look up at the tiled roof on your way in, laid in an old technique called gyoki-buki.
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