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org">Peace Pagoda in San Francisco</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #FFCC33">Architecture</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Completed</th><td class="infobox-data note">September 15, 1968<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1968-09-15</span>)</span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>San Francisco Peace Pagoda</b> is a five-tiered concrete <a href="/wiki/Stupa" title="Stupa">stupa</a> between Post and <a href="/wiki/Geary_Street" class="mw-redirect" title="Geary Street">Geary Streets</a> at Buchanan in San Francisco's <i><a href="/wiki/Nihonmachi,_San_Francisco,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="Nihonmachi, San Francisco, California">Nihonmachi</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Japantown,_San_Francisco,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="Japantown, San Francisco, California">Japantown</a>). The Pagoda, located in the southwestern corner of Peace Plaza between the <a href="/wiki/Japan_Center_(San_Francisco)" title="Japan Center (San Francisco)">Japan Center Mall</a> and Nihonmachi Mall, was constructed in the 1960s and presented to San Francisco by its sister city <a href="/wiki/Osaka" title="Osaka">Osaka</a>, Japan on March 28, 1968.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was designed by Japanese architect <a href="/wiki/Yoshiro_Taniguchi" class="mw-redirect" title="Yoshiro Taniguchi">Yoshiro Taniguchi</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=San_Francisco_Peace_Pagoda&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The San Francisco Peace Pagoda and Peace Plaza are in the center of the Japan Center Mall, which was completed in 1968 as one of the first projects undertaken by <a href="/wiki/M._Justin_Herman" title="M. Justin Herman">M. Justin Herman</a> and the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Redevelopment_Agency" title="San Francisco Redevelopment Agency">San Francisco Redevelopment Agency</a> (SFRA) in the <a href="/wiki/Western_Addition,_San_Francisco" title="Western Addition, San Francisco">Western Addition</a>. Western Addition Redevelopment Project Area A-1 demolished the historic core of Japantown and replaced it with the Japan Center.<sup id="cite_ref-Graves_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Graves-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Unlike the rest of Japan Center, which was funded by corporate interests, the Peace Pagoda was built mainly using contributions from San Francisco's <a href="/wiki/Sister_cities_of_San_Francisco" class="mw-redirect" title="Sister cities of San Francisco">sister city</a>, <a href="/wiki/Osaka" title="Osaka">Osaka</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Landmark_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Landmark-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 3">: 3 </span></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Masayuki_Tokioka" title="Masayuki Tokioka">Masayuki Tokioka</a>, president of National-Braemar (the company that had been selected by SFRA to develop the Japan Center site), is credited with the idea to include a pagoda on the site;<sup id="cite_ref-Landmark_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Landmark-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 12">: 12 </span></sup> according to a 1961 article in the <i><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Chronicle" title="San Francisco Chronicle">San Francisco Chronicle</a></i> covering Mayor <a href="/wiki/George_Christopher_(mayor)" title="George Christopher (mayor)">George Christopher</a>'s request to the Japanese government for the gift of a "Pagoda for Peace", Tokioka "envisoned it as a symbol of Japanese-American friendship in the way that the gift of the Statue of Liberty enhanced Franco-American amity".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tokioka said he conceived of the pagoda to demonstrate "the majority—a big majority—of the Japanese people are friends of the Americans" after the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Mutual_Cooperation_and_Security_Between_the_United_States_and_Japan#Opposition" class="mw-redirect" title="Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security Between the United States and Japan">June 1960 riots</a> that forced President <a href="/wiki/Dwight_Eisenhower" class="mw-redirect" title="Dwight Eisenhower">Dwight Eisenhower</a> to cancel a planned trip to Japan.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the mid-1980s, National-Braemar's parent company, Manoa Finance, went bankrupt and National-Braemar was forced to sell its assets, including the Japan Center development and a portion of the Peace Plaza. The new owner, Sinclair Louie, had discussed building a commercial space on the Plaza, although no plans were ever presented to SFRA for approval. The <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Board_of_Supervisors" title="San Francisco Board of Supervisors">San Francisco Board of Supervisors</a> responded by passing a resolution to designate Peace Plaza as a permanent open space, and then the City Recreation and Park Commission took complete ownership of the Plaza in 1989 through eminent domain.<sup id="cite_ref-Landmark_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Landmark-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 23">: 23 </span></sup> Continuing issues with leaks draining the reflecting pools into the garage underneath led to the permanent drainage and removal of landscaping in 1990.<sup id="cite_ref-SFC-911111_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFC-911111-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Construction">Construction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=San_Francisco_Peace_Pagoda&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Construction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Construction of the Pagoda was underway when Japan Center was dedicated on March 28, 1968. The dedication was attended by the Ambassador from Japan, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Takes%C5%8D_Shimoda&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Takesō Shimoda (page does not exist)">Takesō Shimoda</a>, and the deputy mayor of Osaka, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Yasushi_Oshima&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yasushi Oshima (page does not exist)">Yasushi Oshima</a>; during the dedication ceremonies, the eternal flame was lit from a torch brought from the <a href="/wiki/Sumiyoshi_taisha" class="mw-redirect" title="Sumiyoshi taisha">Sumiyoshi taisha</a> in Osaka.<sup id="cite_ref-Landmark_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Landmark-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 16">: 16 </span></sup> The Martinelli Construction Company of San Francisco oversaw construction of the Pagoda, and it was dedicated in a separate ceremony on September 15, 1968.<sup id="cite_ref-Landmark_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Landmark-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 18">: 18 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SFC-680916_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFC-680916-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Design">Design</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=San_Francisco_Peace_Pagoda&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Design"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatleft" style="width:25em; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <p>The Peace Pagoda lifts up its hundred-feet-high spire to the skies of California. It presents a magnificent view to all esthetically minded people who raise their eyes up to the horizon on the perimeters of San Francisco. </p> </blockquote> <p style="padding-bottom: 0;"><cite class="left-aligned" style=""><a href="/wiki/Yoshir%C5%8D_Taniguchi" title="Yoshirō Taniguchi">Yoshirō Taniguchi</a>, <i>The Peace Pagoda - Its Beauty and Its Spirit</i> (May 10, 1963)<sup id="cite_ref-Beauty_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beauty-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></p> </div> <p>The design for the Peace Pagoda was completed by April 1963, when the <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> printed an article showing a rendering of the completed Peace Pagoda and Plaza; Justin Herman said he had approved the modern concrete structure over a wooden replica of the <a href="/wiki/Daigo-ji" title="Daigo-ji">Daigo-ji</a> Temple in <a href="/wiki/Kyoto" title="Kyoto">Kyoto</a>, as he felt the replica would be out of place in the modernist Japan Center.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The designer, noted modernist architect <a href="/wiki/Yoshir%C5%8D_Taniguchi" title="Yoshirō Taniguchi">Yoshirō Taniguchi</a>, rejected the typical square or octagonal-roofed pagoda in favor of a circular roof, which he stated was inspired by the <a href="/wiki/Hyakumant%C5%8D_Darani" title="Hyakumantō Darani">Million Pagoda (<i>Hyakumantō</i>)</a>, a miniature pagoda design that was placed in ten temples by <a href="/wiki/Empress_K%C5%8Dken" title="Empress Kōken">Empress Kōken</a> in approximately 770 A.D.<sup id="cite_ref-Beauty_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beauty-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Peace Pagoda is 100 feet (30 m) tall with five distinct <a href="/wiki/Storey" title="Storey">stories</a>. The Pagoda uses twelve vertical <a href="/wiki/Ferroconcrete" class="mw-redirect" title="Ferroconcrete">reinforced concrete</a> pillars to support five copper-clad conical roofs which decrease in diameter from 46 feet (14 m) (for the lowest roof, closest to the ground) to 34 feet (10 m) (for the uppermost roof).<sup id="cite_ref-Landmark_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Landmark-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 4">: 4 </span></sup> Each pillar is 65 feet (20 m) tall and weighs 12 short tons (11 t).<sup id="cite_ref-Landmark_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Landmark-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 18">: 18 </span></sup> As typical of a <a href="/wiki/Japanese_pagoda" title="Japanese pagoda">Japanese pagoda</a>, above the uppermost roof is the <i><a href="/wiki/S%C5%8Drin" title="Sōrin">sōrin</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Finial" title="Finial">finial</a>, consisting of a nine-ringed bronze spire (<i>kurin</i>) topped by a golden flaming head (<i>hoshu</i>), which is in turn topped by a ball.<sup id="cite_ref-Landmark_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Landmark-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 4">: 4 </span></sup> The <i>kurin</i> was cast locally in <a href="/wiki/Berkeley,_California" title="Berkeley, California">Berkeley</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Landmark_3-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Landmark-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 18">: 18 </span></sup> The interior of the first story was intended to be lined with <a href="/wiki/Mother-of-pearl" class="mw-redirect" title="Mother-of-pearl">mother-of-pearl</a>, and also was to include a symbolic image of Peace encrusted with <a href="/wiki/Cultured_pearl" title="Cultured pearl">cultured pearls</a> from Japan. Finishes and decorative materials were sourced from Japan, and the reinforced concrete structure would be cast at the site in San Francisco.<sup id="cite_ref-Beauty_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beauty-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/T.Y._Lin" class="mw-redirect" title="T.Y. Lin">T.Y. Lin</a> was retained as a structural consultant.<sup id="cite_ref-Landmark_3-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Landmark-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 18">: 18 </span></sup> The total cost of the Pagoda was $185,000.<sup id="cite_ref-SFC-680916_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFC-680916-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Plaza">Plaza</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=San_Francisco_Peace_Pagoda&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Plaza"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Peace Plaza measures 160 by 197 feet (49 by 60 m), and the Peace Pagoda is in the southwestern corner of the Plaza.<sup id="cite_ref-Landmark_3-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Landmark-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 4">: 4 </span></sup> As originally designed and constructed, the Peace Pagoda stood in a keyhole-shaped reflecting pool. Per Taniguchi, "... as night draws on, the whole structure will look extremely picturesque with the illumination shedding its soft light on the Pagoda. It looks as if the Pagoda is carved in relief against the nocturnal sky and floating on water in a fairy land." Stones and rocks arranged in the pool were also shipped from Japan.<sup id="cite_ref-Beauty_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beauty-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A granite bridge leading to the east from the center of the Pagoda provided pedestrian access over the pool. Another reflecting pool, at the northern edge of the Peace Plaza, was adjacent to a covered walkway connecting the Miyako (West) and Kintetsu (East) Malls.<sup id="cite_ref-Landmark_3-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Landmark-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 19">: 19 </span></sup> </p><p>However, due to poor drainage, the reflecting pools around the Pagoda and north edge of the Plaza were kept dry as early as 1971, since water kept leaking into the Japan Center Garage underneath the Plaza.<sup id="cite_ref-Landmark_3-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Landmark-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 23">: 23 </span></sup> The pools were permanently drained in 1990 and the group Friends of Japantown Peace Plaza held a contest to redesign the Plaza, selecting Kimio Kimura as the landscape architect to design a garden using existing planters and structures.<sup id="cite_ref-Landmark_3-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Landmark-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 24–25">: 24–25 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SFC-911111_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFC-911111-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1995, the Board of Supervisors allocated $600,000 for renovations, and Friends of Japantown Peace Plaza retained the architectural firm <a href="/wiki/HOK_(firm)" title="HOK (firm)">HOK</a> to rehabilitate the Plaza and address continued leakage into the Garage.<sup id="cite_ref-Landmark_3-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Landmark-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 26–27">: 26–27 </span></sup> </p><p>A new wall was installed along Geary, at the south edge of the Plaza, by May 2000, and the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Department_of_Public_Works" title="San Francisco Department of Public Works">San Francisco Department of Public Works</a> (DPW) took over redesign and rehabilitation of the Plaza.<sup id="cite_ref-Landmark_3-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Landmark-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 27">: 27 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> DPW selected architect Kenji Murokami to redesign the Plaza, and two stones were relocated from the reflecting pool: one, which had previously held the English-language dedication plaque, was moved to the northeast corner (near Post); and the other is adjacent to the new red-tiled wall in the southeast corner. The reflecting pools along Post and the covered walkway were also removed at this time. These renovations were completed in 2001.<sup id="cite_ref-Landmark_3-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Landmark-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 28">: 28 </span></sup> </p><p>After the redesign, there are eight steps leading to the center of the Pagoda: three steps in a large outer concrete circle; three steps in a smaller pentagonal concrete platform; and two steps within the base formed by the twelve vertical pillars.<sup id="cite_ref-Landmark_3-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Landmark-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 4">: 4 </span></sup> A waterfall wall is west of the Pagoda, lettered with the sign "Japantown Peace Plaza" and an <a href="/wiki/Eternal_flame" title="Eternal flame">eternal flame</a> is encased in glass near the north end of the wall.<sup id="cite_ref-Landmark_3-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Landmark-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 6">: 6 </span></sup> A 9 ft (2.7 m) tall monument was added in 2005 to commemorate the contributions of Japanese Americans to the north edge of the Plaza; it is one of three monuments placed in California Japantowns by SB307.<sup id="cite_ref-Landmark_3-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Landmark-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 28">: 28 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Peace_Pagodas">Peace Pagodas</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=San_Francisco_Peace_Pagoda&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Peace Pagodas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Peace_Pagoda" title="Peace Pagoda">Peace Pagoda</a></div> <p>A <a href="/wiki/Peace_Pagoda" title="Peace Pagoda">Peace Pagoda</a> is a Buddhist <a href="/wiki/Stupa" title="Stupa">stupa</a>; 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. </p><p>The San Francisco Peace Pagoda was designed as a five-tiered concrete stupa.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Unlike most peace pagodas, this one was not constructed by the Buddhist order <a href="/wiki/Nipponzan_Myohoji" class="mw-redirect" title="Nipponzan Myohoji">Nipponzan Myohoji</a>, which had begun to construct these monuments fourteen years earlier. However, Nipponzan welcomed the pagoda and established a temple in the city.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Yoshirō_Taniguchi"><span id="Yoshir.C5.8D_Taniguchi"></span>Yoshirō Taniguchi</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=San_Francisco_Peace_Pagoda&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Yoshirō Taniguchi"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Yoshir%C5%8D_Taniguchi" title="Yoshirō Taniguchi">Yoshirō Taniguchi</a></div> <p>The designer of the San Francisco Peace Pagoda, Yoshirō Taniguchi, was a noted Japanese modernist architect who also designed the <a href="/wiki/National_Museum_of_Modern_Art,_Tokyo" title="National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo">National Museum of Modern Art</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Theatre_(Japan)" title="Imperial Theatre (Japan)">Imperial Theatre</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Hotel_Okura_Tokyo" title="Hotel Okura Tokyo">Hotel Okura</a>, which all opened in Tokyo during the 1960s. He was a graduate of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Tokyo" title="University of Tokyo">University of Tokyo</a> and the father of architect <a href="/wiki/Yoshio_Taniguchi" title="Yoshio Taniguchi">Yoshio Taniguchi</a>, known for the 2004 redesign of the <a href="/wiki/MoMA" class="mw-redirect" title="MoMA">New York Museum of Modern Art</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=San_Francisco_Peace_Pagoda&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed-hover"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 344.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 342.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Yoshiro_Taniguchi_%26_Minoru_Yamasaki_-_Japan_Center_(model)_(cropped).png" class="mw-file-description" title="Architectural model of Japan Center, looking south from Post (1965)"><img alt="Architectural model of Japan Center, looking south from Post (1965)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Yoshiro_Taniguchi_%26_Minoru_Yamasaki_-_Japan_Center_%28model%29_%28cropped%29.png/514px-Yoshiro_Taniguchi_%26_Minoru_Yamasaki_-_Japan_Center_%28model%29_%28cropped%29.png" decoding="async" width="343" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Yoshiro_Taniguchi_%26_Minoru_Yamasaki_-_Japan_Center_%28model%29_%28cropped%29.png/771px-Yoshiro_Taniguchi_%26_Minoru_Yamasaki_-_Japan_Center_%28model%29_%28cropped%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Yoshiro_Taniguchi_%26_Minoru_Yamasaki_-_Japan_Center_%28model%29_%28cropped%29.png/1028px-Yoshiro_Taniguchi_%26_Minoru_Yamasaki_-_Japan_Center_%28model%29_%28cropped%29.png 2x" data-file-width="3201" data-file-height="1632" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytextwrapper" style="width: 323px"><div class="gallerytext">Architectural model of <a href="/wiki/Japan_Center_(San_Francisco)" title="Japan Center (San Francisco)">Japan Center</a>, looking south from Post (1965)</div> </div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 176.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 174.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Yoshiro_Taniguchi_-_The_Peace_Pagoda_(model)_(cropped).png" class="mw-file-description" title="Architectural model of the Pagoda (1965)"><img alt="Architectural model of the Pagoda (1965)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Yoshiro_Taniguchi_-_The_Peace_Pagoda_%28model%29_%28cropped%29.png/262px-Yoshiro_Taniguchi_-_The_Peace_Pagoda_%28model%29_%28cropped%29.png" decoding="async" width="175" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Yoshiro_Taniguchi_-_The_Peace_Pagoda_%28model%29_%28cropped%29.png/393px-Yoshiro_Taniguchi_-_The_Peace_Pagoda_%28model%29_%28cropped%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Yoshiro_Taniguchi_-_The_Peace_Pagoda_%28model%29_%28cropped%29.png/523px-Yoshiro_Taniguchi_-_The_Peace_Pagoda_%28model%29_%28cropped%29.png 2x" data-file-width="1649" data-file-height="1651" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytextwrapper" style="width: 155px"><div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Architectural_model" title="Architectural model">Architectural model</a> of the Pagoda (1965)</div> </div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 250px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 248px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Masae_Yamamoto_-_The_Peace_Pagoda_-_Its_Beauty_and_Its_Spirit_(1965_brochure).png" class="mw-file-description" title="Sumi-e by Masae Yamamoto (1965)"><img alt="Sumi-e by Masae Yamamoto (1965)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Masae_Yamamoto_-_The_Peace_Pagoda_-_Its_Beauty_and_Its_Spirit_%281965_brochure%29.png/372px-Masae_Yamamoto_-_The_Peace_Pagoda_-_Its_Beauty_and_Its_Spirit_%281965_brochure%29.png" decoding="async" width="248" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Masae_Yamamoto_-_The_Peace_Pagoda_-_Its_Beauty_and_Its_Spirit_%281965_brochure%29.png/558px-Masae_Yamamoto_-_The_Peace_Pagoda_-_Its_Beauty_and_Its_Spirit_%281965_brochure%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Masae_Yamamoto_-_The_Peace_Pagoda_-_Its_Beauty_and_Its_Spirit_%281965_brochure%29.png/744px-Masae_Yamamoto_-_The_Peace_Pagoda_-_Its_Beauty_and_Its_Spirit_%281965_brochure%29.png 2x" data-file-width="3384" data-file-height="2384" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytextwrapper" style="width: 228px"><div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Ink_wash_painting" title="Ink wash painting">Sumi-e</a> by Masae Yamamoto (1965)</div> </div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 131.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 129.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Hyakumant%C5%8D_Darani.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Hyakumantō Darani, the 770 A.D. inspiration for the Peace Pagoda"><img alt="Hyakumantō Darani, the 770 A.D. inspiration for the Peace Pagoda" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Hyakumant%C5%8D_Darani.jpg/194px-Hyakumant%C5%8D_Darani.jpg" decoding="async" width="130" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Hyakumant%C5%8D_Darani.jpg/291px-Hyakumant%C5%8D_Darani.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Hyakumant%C5%8D_Darani.jpg/388px-Hyakumant%C5%8D_Darani.jpg 2x" data-file-width="423" data-file-height="571" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytextwrapper" style="width: 110px"><div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Hyakumant%C5%8D_Darani" title="Hyakumantō Darani">Hyakumantō Darani</a>, the 770 A.D. inspiration for the Peace Pagoda</div> </div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 340.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 338.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Japantown_SF_Peace_Pagoda_plaque_2.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Plaque transcription: The Peace Pagoda Presented in friendship to the people of the United States by the people of Japan March 28, 1968"><img alt="Plaque transcription: The Peace Pagoda Presented in friendship to the people of the United States by the people of Japan March 28, 1968" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Japantown_SF_Peace_Pagoda_plaque_2.JPG/508px-Japantown_SF_Peace_Pagoda_plaque_2.JPG" decoding="async" width="339" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Japantown_SF_Peace_Pagoda_plaque_2.JPG/762px-Japantown_SF_Peace_Pagoda_plaque_2.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Japantown_SF_Peace_Pagoda_plaque_2.JPG/1016px-Japantown_SF_Peace_Pagoda_plaque_2.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3543" data-file-height="1829" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytextwrapper" style="width: 319px"><div class="gallerytext">Plaque transcription: The Peace Pagoda<br />Presented in friendship to the people of the United States by the people of Japan<br />March 28, 1968</div> </div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 119.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 117.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Japantown_SF_Peace_Pagoda_plaque_1.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Plaque in Japanese, on one pillar"><img alt="Plaque in Japanese, on one pillar" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Japantown_SF_Peace_Pagoda_plaque_1.JPG/176px-Japantown_SF_Peace_Pagoda_plaque_1.JPG" decoding="async" width="118" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Japantown_SF_Peace_Pagoda_plaque_1.JPG/264px-Japantown_SF_Peace_Pagoda_plaque_1.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Japantown_SF_Peace_Pagoda_plaque_1.JPG/352px-Japantown_SF_Peace_Pagoda_plaque_1.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1954" data-file-height="2911" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytextwrapper" style="width: 98px"><div class="gallerytext">Plaque in Japanese, on one pillar</div> </div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 234.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 232.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Japantown_SF_Peace_Pagoda_underside.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="The underside of the San Francisco Peace Pagoda"><img alt="The underside of the San Francisco Peace Pagoda" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Japantown_SF_Peace_Pagoda_underside.JPG/349px-Japantown_SF_Peace_Pagoda_underside.JPG" decoding="async" width="233" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Japantown_SF_Peace_Pagoda_underside.JPG/524px-Japantown_SF_Peace_Pagoda_underside.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Japantown_SF_Peace_Pagoda_underside.JPG/699px-Japantown_SF_Peace_Pagoda_underside.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2736" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytextwrapper" style="width: 213px"><div class="gallerytext">The underside of the San Francisco Peace Pagoda</div> </div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 118px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 116px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:San_Francisco_japantowns_peace_tower.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Image with people, for scale of height."><img alt="Image with people, for scale of height." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/San_Francisco_japantowns_peace_tower.jpg/174px-San_Francisco_japantowns_peace_tower.jpg" decoding="async" width="116" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/San_Francisco_japantowns_peace_tower.jpg/262px-San_Francisco_japantowns_peace_tower.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/San_Francisco_japantowns_peace_tower.jpg/349px-San_Francisco_japantowns_peace_tower.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="3072" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytextwrapper" style="width: 96px"><div class="gallerytext">Image with people, for scale of height.</div> </div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 234.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 232.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:San_Francisco_026_(491882046).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Visible from Geary"><img alt="Visible from Geary" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/San_Francisco_026_%28491882046%29.jpg/349px-San_Francisco_026_%28491882046%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="233" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/San_Francisco_026_%28491882046%29.jpg/524px-San_Francisco_026_%28491882046%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/San_Francisco_026_%28491882046%29.jpg/699px-San_Francisco_026_%28491882046%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1920" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytextwrapper" style="width: 213px"><div class="gallerytext">Visible from <a href="/wiki/Geary_Street" class="mw-redirect" title="Geary Street">Geary</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 151.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 149.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Peace_Pagoda_finial_(30628404542)_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="sōrin finial detail"><img alt="sōrin finial detail" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Peace_Pagoda_finial_%2830628404542%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/224px-Peace_Pagoda_finial_%2830628404542%29_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Peace_Pagoda_finial_%2830628404542%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/337px-Peace_Pagoda_finial_%2830628404542%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Peace_Pagoda_finial_%2830628404542%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/449px-Peace_Pagoda_finial_%2830628404542%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1072" data-file-height="1251" /></a></span></div> <div 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