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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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Fujinoki Tomb
An unlooted coffin yielded gilt-bronze horse trappings pierced with elephants and phoenixes - evidence of continental contact.
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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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Takamatsuzuka Tomb
The painted women found here in 1972, in Tang and Goguryeo style, rewrote the history of painting in Japan.
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Kitora Tomb
Four directional beasts on four walls and a star chart on the ceiling - the only tomb where all four survive.
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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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Tenri University Sankokan Museum
An ethnology museum of household objects from around the world, among Japan's best for foreign material.
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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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Uda Matsuyama
A castle town enriched by the medicine trade, its apothecary houses still lining the highway.
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Kinpusenji Zaodo
Second only to Todaiji among wooden buildings; its columns are barely trimmed tree trunks, no two alike.
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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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Gojo Shinmachi
Includes the oldest dated private house in Japan, its ridge tag reading 1607.
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Takatori Tosa District
Below one of Japan's three great mountain castles, a town enriched by travelling medicine sellers.