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Karako-Kagi Site
A tower drawn on a pot was used to reconstruct the building - architecture recovered from a picture.
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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.
Nara
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.
WakayamaArchitectureKoya
Kongobuji and the Danjo Garan
Kukai's mountain monastery, laid out so that the position of each hall and pagoda maps a mandala.
WakayamaArt & CraftsKoya
Koyasan Reihokan Museum
The treasures of the whole mountain; Unkei's eight youthful attendants are unmatched as wrathful figures in boyish form.
WakayamaArchitectureKoya
Kongo Sanmaiin
A pagoda said to have been raised by Hojo Masako, and the oldest building on the mountain.
WakayamaArchitectureNachikatsuura
Kumano Nachi Taisha and Seiganto-ji
A vermilion pagoda and a 133-metre waterfall in one frame - the fused Shinto-Buddhist landscape left intact.
WakayamaArchitectureKudoyama
Jisonin and the Choishi Michi
Stone markers set every 109 metres up the mountain road - 180 of them over twenty kilometres, the path itself made form.
WakayamaArt & CraftsKainan
Kishu Lacquerware
Red lacquer over black, so wear reveals the black beneath - a craft that treats use itself as the finishing process.
WakayamaArchitectureKainan
Kuroe District
Plots were divided on the diagonal, so the houses step along the street like saw teeth.
Wakayama
Kishu Chests
Built in paulownia with almost no metal; the fit is so tight that pushing one drawer pushes another out.
Hashimoto
Kishu Fishing Rods
Bamboo from the Koyasan slopes joined through dozens of stages - treated less as tackle than as lacquerwork.
Aridagawa
Hoda Paper
A domain-sponsored paper that died out and was reconstructed by local people from surviving records.
WakayamaArt & CraftsMinabe
Kishu Binchotan Charcoal
Fired above a thousand degrees until it rings like metal when struck; every maker draws the kiln differently.
Tanabe
Ryujin Lacquerware
Lacquer from a hot-spring valley, made from timber and sap taken off the same mountains.
WakayamaMuseumsShirahama
Minakata Kumagusu Museum
A naturalist who studied slime moulds and fought to save sacred forests; his drawings and notebooks survive.
WakayamaMuseumsTanabe
Minakata Kumagusu Archives
His house and library kept as they were - including the way the books were piled.
WakayamaArchitectureYuasa
Yuasa Historic District
Where Japanese soy sauce is said to have begun; the brewers' houses and storehouses still line the lanes.
WakayamaArchitectureShingu
Kamikura Shrine
A giant boulder is the deity, with a small hall wedged beneath it, reached by 538 steep medieval steps.