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AichiShrines & TemplesIt enshrines the Kusanagi sword, one of the three imperial regalia. A great camphor said to be over a thousand years old stands in its grounds, and a deep forest survives in the middle of the city. Nobunaga prayed here for victory before Okehazama, and the Nobunaga wall he dedicated after winning still stands.
AichiShrines & TemplesIts gate town became a shopping arcade as it stood. Also known for the Osu Bunko, a collection of classical texts.
AichiShrines & TemplesThe wall Nobunaga dedicated in thanks for his victory at Okehazama. One of the three great earthen walls of Japan.
AichiShrines & TemplesOne of the three imperial regalia. It is the sacred body of Atsuta Jingu and is never shown.
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AichiShrines & TemplesIts tahoto pagoda is the oldest building in the city of Nagoya. It holds more than a thousand Enku Buddhas.
AichiShrines & TemplesOne of the four Kannon of Owari. It guards the demon gate of Nagoya Castle.
AichiShrines & TemplesOne of the four Kannon of Owari, with a legend of a girl who covered the figure with her hat and was seen and married by the lord.
AichiShrines & TemplesThe tutelary shrine of Nagoya. Floats move through the streets for the Wakamiya festival.
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AichiHistoric DistrictsA town of shibori dyeing that grew up between one Tokaido post station and the next.
A rice cake born of the custom of purifying yourself before worship. Hitsumabushi restaurants are close by.
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AichiArt & CraftsA systematic 20th-century collection, holding one of the very few Klimt oils in Japan.
AichiArt & CraftsFour collecting pillars, including a rare Japanese holding of the Mexican muralists, in a Kurokawa building.
AichiArt & CraftsThe Owari Tokugawa treasury intact, including the 12th-century Tale of Genji scrolls - shown a few scenes a year, each November.
AichiArchitectureA palace burned in 1945 and rebuilt in real timber from surveys and photographs, its Kano-school gold rooms recreated.
AichiArt & CraftsThe treasury of the shrine of the sacred sword, holding over 6,000 dedicated blades shown in rotation.
AichiArt & CraftsThree centuries of French painting hung in order, with a room where visitors may sit on Galle and Majorelle furniture.
AichiArt & CraftsIts annex is a fine sukiya house, where tea is served looking into the garden.
AichiArt & CraftsTea utensils rearranged each season according to the logic of a tea gathering, not of art history.
AichiArt & CraftsEdo tea houses moved into the garden, so the utensils and the rooms they were made for sit on one site.