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NaraCastles & History
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Wakakusa Yamayaki
The whole hill is burned in January. Thirty-three hectares go up in flame.
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Tsukigase Plum Grove
Ten thousand plum trees. They were first planted to take ubai, a dye.
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NaraHistoric DistrictsAround Sakurai
Yamanobe no Michi
Held to be the oldest road in Japan, running from Miwa to Nara and linking burial mounds and shrines.
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Nara National Museum
It holds the Shosoin exhibition each autumn. The Buddhist sculpture hall is itself an Important Cultural Property.
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Todaiji Museum
Clay figures moved from the hall and set at eye level, where before they could only be looked up at.
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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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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.