It was one of the top temples in East Asia at the time, with its towering nine-story pagoda, equivalent to a modern twenty-five story building, two times higher than Horyu-ji Temple's five-story pagoda.
それは、九重の塔がそびえ建ち、高さは法隆寺の五重塔の二倍もあり、現代の25階ビルに相当し、当時の東アジアでも超一級の寺院であった。