Yakushi-ji Temple had shown a wretched atmosphere in the Kon-do and Kodo Halls (lecture halls) until the mid twentieth century, both of which were reconstructed provisionally during the end of the Edo period,.
20世紀半ばまでの薬師寺には、江戸時代末期仮再建の金堂、講堂がわびしく建っていた。