HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Tetsujin Monument, Nagata
An earthquake-hit district raised an 18-metre robot from a local cartoonist's comic, paid for by residents.
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HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Arima Onsen
Among Japan's oldest spas; its woven bamboo baskets are said to have been used by Hideyoshi at tea.
Sanda
Sanda Celadon
A kiln that copied Chinese celadon, extinct for a century and now being revived.
Kobe
Churches of Kobe
Churches of many denominations arrived with the port; many fell in 1995, and their rebuilding shows its own era.
HyogoArchitectureHimeji
Kokoen Garden
Nine separate gardens divided by earthen walls, laid over the excavated foundations of samurai houses.
Tanba-Sasayama
Farmland of Tamba
Fog pools in the basin on autumn mornings until the fields read as a sea - crop, terrain and climate as one.
Nishiwaki
Saw-Tooth Mills of Nishiwaki
Roofs shaped to catch even north light for weaving, running along the river - form dictated by the trade.
NaraMuseumsNara
Nara National Museum
The most systematic display of Japanese Buddhist art; its 1894 building is an Important Cultural Property, and the Shosoin treasures are shown here each autumn.
Nara
Todaiji Museum
Clay figures moved from the hall and set at eye level, where before they could only be looked up at.
NaraArt & CraftsNara
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.
NaraArt & CraftsNara
Kasuga Taisha Museum
So rich in Heian armour it is called a second Shosoin; three thousand donated lanterns stand in its grounds.
NaraArt & Crafts
NaraArt & CraftsNara
Nara Prefectural Museum of Art
Grown from one collector's holdings of genre material - not only paintings but the costumes and ornaments in them.
NaraArt & CraftsNara
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.
NaraArt & CraftsNara
Museum Yamato Bunkakan
Built by a railway company for its jubilee; Isoya Yoshida's low building rings a courtyard, and holds four National Treasures.
NaraArt & CraftsNara
Neiraku Art Museum
Reached through a garden that borrows the Todaiji gate and the hills behind it as its own scenery.
NaraArchitectureNara
Naramachi District
A quarter grown inside a vanished temple precinct, its townhouses narrow at the street and deep behind.
Nara
Nara Inksticks
Over ninety percent of Japan's ink; soot and glue kneaded by foot and hand, then dried for half a year.
Nara
Nara Brushes
Said to descend from a method Kukai brought from Tang China; different animal hairs are sorted and blended in water.
Nara
Nara Ittobori Carving
Chisel facets are left raw and then painted in strong colour and gold - a technique born from shrine festival dolls.
NaraArt & CraftsNara
Akahada Ware
Reddish clay under a milky glaze, painted with the naive figures known as Nara-e.
Nara
Nara Bleached Ramie
Ramie cloth whitened by water and sun alone, supplied to the shogunate for priests' and samurai dress.
NaraArchitectureNara
Heijo Palace Site
An entire capital lay under farmland; its gate and throne hall have been rebuilt in timber at full size.
NaraArt & CraftsIkaruga
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.
Hakodate Hachimangu · Shrine
Koryuji · Temple