hopePlate 142 · Ikaruga, Japan

Hōryū-ji

The oldest wooden buildings on earth, still standing because someone kept caring.

c. 607 · Prince Shōtoku's builders · Asia

The chamber score

Etenraku

Gagaku · Imperial court

The oldest orchestra in the world, still walking.

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 Buddhist complex, a cornerstone of world timber architecture.

Commission the full chamber

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

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

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Hōryū-ji was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.