hopePlate 172 · Uji, Japan

Byōdō-in

A phoenix hall on a pond, printed on a coin so a nation would carry it.

1053 · Fujiwara no Yorimichi · Asia

The chamber score

Sakura Sakura

Traditional · Edo

The folk song every gate already knows.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The UNESCO Pure Land temple, among the great buildings of Heian Japan.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Byōdō-in through hope — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Byōdō-in was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.