A man whose work it is to help preserve Japan’s cultural historical past has accidentally broke his car to the country’s oldest toilet at a centuries-old Buddhist temple.
The particular communal loo at Tofukuji in Kyoto dates back to the 15th century and is designated an important cultural asset.
Its ancient door was ruined after the employee hit the particular gas without understanding the car was in reverse, police said.
No one was hurt and the actual latrines inside remained intact.
The un-named man, who works at the Kyoto History Preservation called police soon after the crash, telling them he previously crashed into the forehead. He was considered visiting the brow on business, according to the Sankei Shimbun newspapers.
A photo in the paper showed what seemed to be the car after this drove into the toilet’s 700-year-old wooden door and pillars.
Toshio Ishikawa, director of the Tofukuji Research Company, was “stunned” from the scale of the accident.
Another established said that although the damage is repairable, rebuilding the outhouse to its original state would need “lots of work”.
The empty communal toilet – known as tōsu — was built in the very first half of the Muromachi period (1336-1573) and it is located inside Tofukuji temple.
It can nicknamed the “hyakusecchin”, which means 100-person bathroom, as it was used by more than 100 trainee monks at the temple practicing religious self-discipline, the newspaper Asahi Shimbun reported.
The paper describes it as a structure containing a stone row holding around twenty circular holes.