(taisei corporation has its root in the construction department of okuragumi shokai founded by kihachiro okura .) （大倉喜八郎が創立した大倉組商会の建設部門は大成建設の源流である。）
later , he became the president of the meiji-jingu shirine zouei kyoku (meiji-jingu shrine construction department ) and meiji-jingu shirine hosan kai (meiji-jingu shrine support association ). 明治神宮造営局総裁、明治神宮奉賛会総裁。
this derives from the fact that emperor saga bestowed to-ji temple (then under construction ) on kukai on march 9 , 823 , and appointed him as the chief of the construction department of to-ji temple . これは弘仁14年1月19日 (旧暦)に嵯峨天皇が空海に建設中の東寺を与えてその建設責任者である「造東寺所別当」に任命したことに由来する。
considering that the role of to-ji choja is to be in charge of the maintenance , management and improvement of to-ji temple , which kukai left , it is not at all wrong to consider the chief of the construction department of to-ji temple as the forerunner of to-ji choja and to consider kukai , who helped construct the to-ji temple , as the first to-ji betto . もっとも、東寺長者の役割を空海が遺した東寺を維持・管理・整備する責任者であると考えるならば、造東寺所別当を東寺長者の前身とみなして最初に東寺を整備した空海を初代と考えることも決して誤りではないと言える。
subsequently , he successively held various posts at todai-ji temple , including jishu (literally , head priest , referring to director of the temple or abbot ), joza (literally , elder or president , referring to an ecclesiastical official , one of the three officials who assumes leadership in the affairs of a monastery ) and zojisho-chiji (literally , director of affairs of temple construction department ) among todaiji shochin and sanko (or sango , literally , the three bonds , referring to the directors of a monastery ), thus playing an active part in handling practical business matters for the temple . その後、東大寺少鎮・三綱のうちの寺主及び上座・造寺所知事などを歴任し、東大寺の実務面で大いに活躍した。
