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Fujinoki Tomb
An unlooted coffin yielded gilt-bronze horse trappings pierced with elephants and phoenixes - evidence of continental contact.
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NaraMuseumsKashihara
Kashihara Archaeological Museum
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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NaraMuseumsAsuka
Takamatsuzuka Tomb
The painted women found here in 1972, in Tang and Goguryeo style, rewrote the history of painting in Japan.
NaraMuseumsAsuka
Kitora Tomb
Four directional beasts on four walls and a star chart on the ceiling - the only tomb where all four survive.
NaraContemporary ArtAsuka
Ishibutai Tomb
The mound is gone and the stone chamber stands bare in a field; how its 77-tonne capstone was raised is still unknown.
NaraArt & CraftsAsuka
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.
NaraArt & Crafts
NaraMuseumsTenri
Tenri University Sankokan Museum
An ethnology museum of household objects from around the world, among Japan's best for foreign material.
NaraArt & CraftsTenri
Isonokami Shrine
A seven-branched iron sword inscribed in gold, given by Baekje in the 4th century - among Japan's earliest written objects.
NaraArchitectureUda
Uda Matsuyama
A castle town enriched by the medicine trade, its apothecary houses still lining the highway.
NaraArchitectureYoshino
Kinpusenji Zaodo
Second only to Todaiji among wooden buildings; its columns are barely trimmed tree trunks, no two alike.
Yoshino
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.
NaraContemporary ArtYoshino
Cherry Trees of Yoshino
Thirty thousand cherries planted over thirteen centuries as an act of faith; the mountain whitens from the bottom up.
NaraArchitectureGojō
Gojo Shinmachi
Includes the oldest dated private house in Japan, its ridge tag reading 1607.
NaraArchitectureTakatori
Takatori Tosa District
Below one of Japan's three great mountain castles, a town enriched by travelling medicine sellers.
NaraMuseumsTawaramoto
Karako-Kagi Site
A tower drawn on a pot was used to reconstruct the building - architecture recovered from a picture.
NaraArt & CraftsNara
Kasuga Mandala Paintings
Paintings that show the shrine and its mountain as a Buddhist paradise - gods and Buddhas held in one image.
NaraArt & CraftsNara
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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Yagyu Village
Home of the Yagyu swordsmen, with a boulder split clean in two that legend says was cut by a blade.
NaraArchitectureNara
Isuien and Daijoin Gardens
Two gardens of different centuries joined into one, borrowing the Todaiji gate and the hills as its scenery.
NaraArt & CraftsNara
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.
WakayamaArt & CraftsWakayama
The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama
Among Japan's great print collections, in a Kurokawa building of stacked tile-like eaves beside the castle.
WakayamaMuseumsWakayama
Wakayama Prefectural Museum
The twin of the art museum next door, built around Kumano pilgrimage material and the Kishu Tokugawa collection.
Hakodate Hachimangu · Shrine
Koryuji · Temple