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Izumo-taisha

One of the oldest shrines in Japan, with no recorded founding date - it is already old in the earliest chronicles. A tenth-century record says its hall stood about 48 m tall, higher than the Great Buddha hall at Nara; that was read as exaggeration until enormous pillar bases were dug up in 2000.

Dated events and their evidence

• 970 CE disputed
  10th-c. record describes a hall of ~48 m source
• 1744 CE mainstream
  present main hall built source
• 2000 CE mainstream
  giant pillar remains excavated, supporting the tall-hall tradition source

Where

35.4019° N, 132.6856° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izumo-taisha

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