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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Akahada Ware

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

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Nara Bleached Ramie

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Ramie cloth whitened by water and sun alone, supplied to the shogunate for priests' and samurai dress.

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Heijo Palace Site

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An entire capital lay under farmland; its gate and throne hall have been rebuilt in timber at full size.

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Horyuji

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The only 7th-century wooden buildings surviving anywhere; hall and pagoda set asymmetrically inside one cloister.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Horyuji Gallery of Temple Treasures

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The impossibly slender Kudara Kannon, and a shrine once carpeted in beetle wings - the Asuka sense of beauty at its clearest.

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Chuguji

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A seated bodhisattva, one finger at the cheek, left in the bare black camphor - among the summits of Japanese sculpture.

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Hokiji

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The oldest three-storey pagoda standing in Japan, inscribed as World Heritage with Horyuji.

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Fujinoki Tomb

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An unlooted coffin yielded gilt-bronze horse trappings pierced with elephants and phoenixes - evidence of continental contact.

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Kashihara Archaeological Museum

橿原市中和

The museum of the institute that has excavated this basin for eighty years, laying out the formation of the Japanese state in objects.

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Imai-cho

橿原市中和

Eight in ten of its houses date from the Edo period - a moated free town said to have held most of the province's money.

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Takamatsuzuka Tomb

明日香村中和

The painted women found here in 1972, in Tang and Goguryeo style, rewrote the history of painting in Japan.

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Kitora Tomb

明日香村中和

Four directional beasts on four walls and a star chart on the ceiling - the only tomb where all four survive.

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Ishibutai Tomb

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The mound is gone and the stone chamber stands bare in a field; how its 77-tonne capstone was raised is still unknown.

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Asukadera

明日香村中和

Japan's first true temple; its Buddha, said to date from 606, has survived repeated fires and sits patched together.

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Nara Manyo Museum

明日香村中和

A hundred and fifty-four living painters were each given one ancient poem to paint; below lies the workshop that cast Japan's first coins.

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Hasedera

桜井市中和

A roofed stair of 399 steps precedes the hall; the icon inside is over ten metres tall, and can only be looked up at.

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Shorinji

桜井市中和

Nearly discarded when Shinto and Buddhism were forcibly separated, and rescued by Fenollosa - a summit of Nara dry-lacquer sculpture.

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Tanzan Shrine

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The only thirteen-storey wooden pagoda in the world, seventeen metres of stacked roofs on a mountainside.

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Omiwa Shrine

桜井市中和

There is no inner sanctuary: past the worship hall stands the mountain itself, the oldest form of Japanese shrine.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Tenri University Sankokan Museum

天理市東和

An ethnology museum of household objects from around the world, among Japan's best for foreign material.