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Kofukuji National Treasure Hall
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.
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Kasuga Taisha Museum
So rich in Heian armour it is called a second Shosoin; three thousand donated lanterns stand in its grounds.
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Akishinodera
The muse of the arts: her head is 8th-century dry lacquer, her body a Kamakura replacement - one figure of two eras.
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Nara Prefectural Museum of Art
Grown from one collector's holdings of genre material - not only paintings but the costumes and ornaments in them.
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Nara City Museum of Photography
For a photographer who spent fifty years on Nara alone; Kurokawa buried most of the building to protect the view.
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Museum Yamato Bunkakan
Built by a railway company for its jubilee; Isoya Yoshida's low building rings a courtyard, and holds four National Treasures.
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Neiraku Art Museum
Reached through a garden that borrows the Todaiji gate and the hills behind it as its own scenery.
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Nara Inksticks
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
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
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
Reddish clay under a milky glaze, painted with the naive figures known as Nara-e.
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Nara Bleached Ramie
Ramie cloth whitened by water and sun alone, supplied to the shogunate for priests' and samurai dress.
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Horyuji Gallery of Temple Treasures
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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Nara Manyo Museum
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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Isonokami Shrine
A seven-branched iron sword inscribed in gold, given by Baekje in the 4th century - among Japan's earliest written objects.
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Yoshino Cedar and Barrel Staves
Five centuries of planted forest, grown dense and slow so the rings stay fine - the timber that lines sake barrels.
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Kasuga Mandala Paintings
Paintings that show the shrine and its mountain as a Buddhist paradise - gods and Buddhas held in one image.
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Armour and Swords of Nara
Armour survived because it was dedicated, not used; the silk lacing survives precisely because it never saw battle.
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Nara Mosquito Nets
A loose hemp weave that stops insects but not air; when nets fell out of use the cloth survived as kitchen towels.
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Takayama Tea Whisks
The tea whisks of Takayama, Ikoma. Bamboo is split finely and the tines are raised. The area produces most of Japan's tea whisks.