Heian
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Fukiji Ōdō, located on the Kunisaki Peninsula in Bungo-Takada, Oita Prefecture, is the oldest surviving wooden structure in Kyushu and a designated National Treasure of Japan. Ranked alongside Byōdō-in's Phoenix Hall and Chūson-ji's Golden Hall as one of Japan's Three Great Amida Halls, this late Heian-period masterpiece preserves extraordinary wall paintings depicting the Pure Land paradise and an Important Cultural Property statue of Amida Buddha.
Sixty-one Buddhas carved into volcanic cliffs in Usuki, Oita, became Japan's first rock-cut National Treasures in 1995. Meet the restored Furuzono Dainichi.