In the glaring sunlight of high summer, in front of the black-lacquered Chokusi-mon gate (imperial envoy gate), which is elaborately decorated with numerous gilded ornamental fittings in the motif of peony flowers, a red lotus bud is nobly rising from the lotus pot and quietly preparing for its blooming.
In India, the land of scorching heat, the cool waterside is traditionally considered to be an ideal place to live. The lotus flower blooming magnificently above the water surface has been respected and cherished by Indian people since ancient times, as the symbol of the paradise where they can be released from the painful reality of living.
Such respect and admiration to the lotus flower have been represented in various ways to adorn every god in Indian mythology and are inherited by Buddhism as the essential emblem of the Land of Happiness.
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