The pagoda was built as a temporary indoor display in the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition’s Palace of Food Products. It was moved to the Japanese Tea Garden in 1916.
The upper part, however, is the most decorated part of the entire pagoda. Besides the ornaments on the arches of the doors, there are niches on the other eight sides in the shape of square ...
The bottom of the pagoda is in the form of a huge Sumeru pedestal, decorated with carved arch patterns. At the corners there are relief sculptures of heavenly guardians accompanied by another ...