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兵庫県 · Art & museums

Kokoen Garden

姫路市播磨

Nine separate gardens divided by earthen walls, laid over the excavated foundations of samurai houses.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Farmland of Tamba

丹波篠山市但馬

Fog pools in the basin on autumn mornings until the fields read as a sea - crop, terrain and climate as one.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Saw-Tooth Mills of Nishiwaki

西脇市播磨

Roofs shaped to catch even north light for weaving, running along the river - form dictated by the trade.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Nara National Museum

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The most systematic display of Japanese Buddhist art; its 1894 building is an Important Cultural Property, and the Shosoin treasures are shown here ea…

奈良県 · Art & museums

Todaiji

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Among the largest wooden buildings on earth; its 8.4-metre guardians were carved by Unkei, Kaikei and their workshop in 69 days.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Todaiji Museum

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Clay figures moved from the hall and set at eye level, where before they could only be looked up at.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Shosoin

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A storehouse of stacked triangular beams that has kept Persian and Tang objects safe for thirteen centuries.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Kofukuji National Treasure Hall

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The Ashura figure gives a god of war the face of a boy; made in light dry lacquer, it has no equal from the 8th century.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Kasuga Taisha Museum

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So rich in Heian armour it is called a second Shosoin; three thousand donated lanterns stand in its grounds.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Yakushiji

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Its east pagoda has three storeys but reads as six, its skirt roofs giving the rhythm once called frozen music.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Toshodaiji

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Founded by Ganjin, who reached Japan blind on his sixth attempt; its main hall is the only Nara-period one surviving complete.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Gangoji

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Japan's oldest roof tiles are still on this roof - made in 588 and shedding rain for fourteen centuries.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Shinyakushiji

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Twelve guardian figures ringing the icon on a circular platform, some still bearing their 8th-century paint.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Akishinodera

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The muse of the arts: her head is 8th-century dry lacquer, her body a Kamakura replacement - one figure of two eras.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Hokkeji

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A Kannon said to portray the empress herself, cut from one block with a soft, almost damp modelling of the body.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Nara Prefectural Museum of Art

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Grown from one collector's holdings of genre material - not only paintings but the costumes and ornaments in them.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Nara City Museum of Photography

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For a photographer who spent fifty years on Nara alone; Kurokawa buried most of the building to protect the view.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Museum Yamato Bunkakan

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Built by a railway company for its jubilee; Isoya Yoshida's low building rings a courtyard, and holds four National Treasures.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Neiraku Art Museum

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Reached through a garden that borrows the Todaiji gate and the hills behind it as its own scenery.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Naramachi District

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A quarter grown inside a vanished temple precinct, its townhouses narrow at the street and deep behind.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Nara Inksticks

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Over ninety percent of Japan's ink; soot and glue kneaded by foot and hand, then dried for half a year.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Nara Brushes

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Said to descend from a method Kukai brought from Tang China; different animal hairs are sorted and blended in water.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Nara Ittobori Carving

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Chisel facets are left raw and then painted in strong colour and gold - a technique born from shrine festival dolls.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Akahada Ware

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Reddish clay under a milky glaze, painted with the naive figures known as Nara-e.