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奈良県 · Art & museums

Isonokami Shrine

天理市東和

A seven-branched iron sword inscribed in gold, given by Baekje in the 4th century - among Japan's earliest written objects.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Muroji

宇陀市東和

Its 16-metre pagoda is the smallest outdoor one in Japan; the temple admitted women, and was called the women's Koyasan.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Uda Matsuyama

宇陀市東和

A castle town enriched by the medicine trade, its apothecary houses still lining the highway.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Taimadera

葛城市中和

The only temple keeping both its original pagodas, and enshrining a mandala said to be woven from lotus thread.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Kinpusenji Zaodo

吉野町吉野

Second only to Todaiji among wooden buildings; its columns are barely trimmed tree trunks, no two alike.

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.

奈良県 · Regional selections

Nara Prison Museum by Hoshino Resort

奈良エリア

A facility in the former Nara Prison, an important cultural property and the only one of the Meiji era's five great prisons to survive entire.

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薬師寺

奈良エリア

A temple built by Emperor Tenmu in prayer for his consort's recovery. The east pagoda stands from its founding and is a national treasure.

奈良県 · Regional selections

奈良国立博物館

奈良エリア

A museum in a corner of Nara Park, holding mainly Buddhist art, which shows the Shosoin treasures each autumn.

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興福寺

奈良エリア

The clan temple of the Fujiwara, moved here with the capital in 710, known for its five-storey pagoda and its Ashura figure.

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東大寺

奈良エリア

A temple founded at the wish of Emperor Shomu, whose Great Buddha Hall enshrines a Vairocana about 15 metres high.

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法華寺

奈良エリア

The head national convent, founded at the wish of Empress Komyo, keeping a standing eleven-headed Kannon.

奈良県 · Regional selections

Oriental Folk Museum

奈良エリア

A museum in Nara showing folk material from around the world, mainly from Asia.

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Joruriji Temple

奈良エリア

A temple with a Pure Land garden and nine Amida images. It stands in Kizugawa, Kyoto, though listed under Nara in the source.

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春日大社

奈良エリア

A shrine whose halls were built on this site in 768, with some 3,000 lanterns along its approach.