hopePlate 153 · Nara, Japan

Tōdai-ji

The largest wooden building of its age, raised to house a bronze Buddha of a nation's vow.

752 / 1709 · Emperor Shōmu & later rebuilders · 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 Great Buddha Hall of Nara, a monument of imperial Buddhism.

Commission the full chamber

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

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

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Tōdai-ji was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.