{"id":697,"date":"2007-11-19T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T04:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2007\/11\/19\/nikko-taiyuinbyo\/"},"modified":"2008-09-28T13:49:20","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T17:49:20","slug":"nikko-taiyuinbyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2007\/11\/19\/nikko-taiyuinbyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikko: Taiyuinbyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iemitsu, the third Tokugawa Shogun, was not content with building the world&#8217;s most elaborately decorated shrine for his grandfather. He also build an elaborate mausoleum for himself, located a short distance away. This is the Taiyuinbyo, which also serves as a functioning Buddhist temple.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe outer gate of the Taiyuinbyo is another Thunder Gate,<br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/taiyuinbyothundergate.jpg' alt='Thunder Gate' \/><\/p>\n<p>guarded by the gods of Wind<br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/fuijinwindgod.jpg' alt='Fuijin the God of Wind' \/><\/p>\n<p>and Thunder.<br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/raijinthundergod.jpg' alt='Raijin the God of Thunder' \/><\/p>\n<p>From there a pathway (with no shops) leads to a middle gate with four impressive guardians.<br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/taiyuinbyomiddlegate.jpg' alt='Middle Gate' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/taiyuinbyoguardian1.jpg' alt='Middle Guardian' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/taiyuinbyoguardian2.jpg' alt='Middle Guardian' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/taiyuinbyoguardian3.jpg' alt='Middle Guardian' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/taiyuinbyoguardian4.jpg' alt='Middle Guardian' \/><\/p>\n<p>Another path and flight of stairs leads to the inner gate, with its own guardians.<br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/taiyuinbyoinnergate.jpg' alt='Inner Gate' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/tayuinbyoinnerguardian1.jpg' alt='Inner Guardian' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/tayuinbyoinnerguardian2.jpg' alt='Inner Guardian' \/><\/p>\n<p>The view looking down the steps.<br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/tayuinbyoview.jpg' alt='View from Steps' \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is the entrance of the actual temple building. As usual no photographs are allowed inside.<br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/tayuinbyoentrance.jpg' alt='Entrance' \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/category\/japan-vacation\/?order=asc\">All Entries For This Trip.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iemitsu, the third Tokugawa Shogun, was not content with building the world&#8217;s most elaborately decorated shrine for his grandfather. He also build an elaborate mausoleum for himself, located a short&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2007\/11\/19\/nikko-taiyuinbyo\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11,174],"tags":[114],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-vacation","category-japaneseculture","category-photos","tag-nikko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1717,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/1717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}