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奈良県 · Art & museums

Yoshino Cedar and Barrel Staves

吉野町吉野

Five centuries of planted forest, grown dense and slow so the rings stay fine - the timber that lines sake barrels.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Cherry Trees of Yoshino

吉野町吉野

Thirty thousand cherries planted over thirteen centuries as an act of faith; the mountain whitens from the bottom up.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Gojo Shinmachi

五條市吉野

Includes the oldest dated private house in Japan, its ridge tag reading 1607.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Takatori Tosa District

高取町中和

Below one of Japan's three great mountain castles, a town enriched by travelling medicine sellers.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Karako-Kagi Site

田原本町中和

A tower drawn on a pot was used to reconstruct the building - architecture recovered from a picture.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Kasuga Mandala Paintings

奈良市奈良

Paintings that show the shrine and its mountain as a Buddhist paradise - gods and Buddhas held in one image.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Armour and Swords of Nara

奈良市奈良

Armour survived because it was dedicated, not used; the silk lacing survives precisely because it never saw battle.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Yagyu Village

奈良市奈良

Home of the Yagyu swordsmen, with a boulder split clean in two that legend says was cut by a blade.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Isuien and Daijoin Gardens

奈良市奈良

Two gardens of different centuries joined into one, borrowing the Todaiji gate and the hills as its scenery.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Nara Mosquito Nets

奈良市奈良

A loose hemp weave that stops insects but not air; when nets fell out of use the cloth survived as kitchen towels.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama

和歌山市紀北

Among Japan's great print collections, in a Kurokawa building of stacked tile-like eaves beside the castle.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Wakayama Prefectural Museum

和歌山市紀北

The twin of the art museum next door, built around Kumano pilgrimage material and the Kishu Tokugawa collection.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Wakayama Castle

和歌山市紀北

Three eras of stone-stacking technique stand within one castle, built from a local greenish schist.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kongobuji and the Danjo Garan

高野町高野

Kukai's mountain monastery, laid out so that the position of each hall and pagoda maps a mandala.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Koyasan Reihokan Museum

高野町高野

The treasures of the whole mountain; Unkei's eight youthful attendants are unmatched as wrathful figures in boyish form.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Okunoin, Koyasan

高野町高野

Over 200,000 memorials under ancient cedars - two kilometres in which the whole history of Japanese stone monuments is ranked.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kongo Sanmaiin

高野町高野

A pagoda said to have been raised by Hojo Masako, and the oldest building on the mountain.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Negoroji

岩出市紀北

Japan's largest wooden pagoda of its type, spared in Hideyoshi's burning - its pillars still show musket holes.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kokawadera

紀の川市紀北

A Momoyama garden of massive upright stones built into the slope before the hall - a composition without parallel.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Dojoji

日高川町紀中

The temple of the bell legend, where the story is still narrated aloud from a painted scroll, as it has been for centuries.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kumano Hongu Taisha

田辺市紀中

The centre of the Kumano shrines; on the old river-island site now stands only a 34-metre torii.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kumano Hayatama Taisha

新宮市紀南

A thousand objects made for the gods and never used - Muromachi craft surviving as if new.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kumano Nachi Taisha and Seiganto-ji

那智勝浦町紀南

A vermilion pagoda and a 133-metre waterfall in one frame - the fused Shinto-Buddhist landscape left intact.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kumano Kodo Nakahechi

田辺市紀中

A pilgrim road walked by emperors and peasants alike, its ninety-nine wayside shrines turning distance into devotion.