Study on structure and design of the octagonal Buddhist pagodas, octagonal Buddhist buildings in East Asia of the ancient times and the Middle Ages

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I collected the remains of octagonal temple building sites left in Japan, China, Korea, North Korea and the octagonal temple buildings which existed in China and Japan. Existed buildings are divided into 2 styles by the forms of wooden structuer. One is a style of Anrakuji octagonal three-stories pagoda in Japan, another is a style of wooden pagoda at Ying-shen in China. It is thought that the small scale pagodas, like remains of ancient Kokuryo, are divided to Anrakuji style, and the big scale pagodas, like remains of Hossyoji temple sites in Japan, are divided to Ying-shen styles. In addition, I think that the octagonal pagodas may be designed on the basis of a one side length. It is because the one side length of the octagonal pagoda body is similar to that of square pagoda body of the same period.