Location Nihonmachi (Japantown) Completed 28 March 1968 | Country United States Affiliation Buddhism | |
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The Peace Pagoda is a five-tiered concrete stupa between Post and Geary Streets at Buchanan in San Francisco's Nihonmachi (Japantown). The Pagoda, located in the northeastern corner of Peace Plaza between the Japan Center Mall and Nihonmachi Mall, was constructed in the 1960s and presented to San Francisco by its sister city Osaka, Japan on March 28, 1968.
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- Stock shot clip nat sound 1072 japantown san francisco peace pagoda fed 2010
- Peace Pagodas
- The Architect Yoshiro Taniguchi
- References
It was designed by Japanese architect Yoshiro Taniguchi.
Unlike most peace pagodas, this was not constructed by the Buddhist order Nipponzan Myohoji, who began constructing these monuments fourteen years earlier. However, Nipponzan welcomed the pagoda and established a temple in the city.
Peace Pagodas
A Peace Pagoda is a Buddhist stupa; a monument to inspire peace, designed to provide a focus for people of all races and creeds, and to help unite them in their search for world peace.
The Architect Yoshiro Taniguchi
Yoshiro Taniguchi is a noted Japanese modernist architect who designed the National Museum of Modern Art, the Imperial Theater and the Okura Hotel, all in Tokyo, all from the 1960s. He is the father of architect Yoshio Taniguchi, known for the 2004 redesign of the New York Museum of Modern Art. Graduate of the University of Tokyo.