Abstract
It has long been discussed whether or not the buildings and the Buddhist images of the original Yakushiji at the Fujiwara capital were moved to the new temple site at the Heijo capital. This paper and the following one both deal with this problem and are especialy concerned with the pagodas. The principal conclusions resulting from this study are as follows. 1. The pagodas of the Yakushiji in the Heijo capital had the same measurements and style as the pagodas at the original Yakushiji in the Fujiwara capital. However, the ground floors of the earlier pagodas differed from those of the later ones insofar as the lean-to roofs were not enclosed and had no groups of clay figurines placed inside. In the Heijo pagodas the walls were constructed at the outer edge of the lean-to roofs and only the pillars remain to indicate the place of the wall as they were in the Fujiwara Yakushiji. Furthermore, there did exist groups of clay figurines similar to those still to be seen at Horyuji. 2. When the Yakushiji was re-established in the new Heijo capital, one of the two pagodas of the original Yakushiji, the east pagoda, was moved to the new site, and its central pillar and core of the building were set up as the west pagoda.
