As a sacred Buddhist center that serves to spread Buddhism in Japan, Todai-ji Temple has provided us Buddhist believers with protection from wind and rain by its tiled roofs rising high into the sky.
右当伽藍は風雨を天半に軼べ、棟甍の竦櫂を有ち、仏法恢弘の精舎、神明保護の霊地なり。